In biological terms, catabolism describes the breakdown of organic material during the metabolic process - a fitting description for the analogous processes at play in the built environment as well.

Structural Catabolism bears witness to industrial transition, capturing the realignment of material, energy and the remarkable beauty left in its wake.

Laverty's interest in industrial structures developed early in life during pilgrimages to the great factories and automotive plants of the Midwest; an interest only heightened as those same factories were shuttered and lay in dormancy throughout the following decades.

The temporary loss of these once productive spaces is an opening for meditation and reflection; however, it isn’t until inspired characters with contemporary motivation re-engage our historic legacies when Laverty's imagery of reanimation begins.

While the results in the built environment do not always favor our aesthetic ideal and in many cases, destroy much of what we revere, the process of rebuilding has a story and beauty of its own, inspiring a fleeting cast of shadows.