Its composition — an anti-hierarchical stack of volumetric shapes, several of which
resemble tombstones — could serve as a template for Philip Guston's ungainly piles of shoes, books, lightbulbs, and eyeballs.
Bradford's enormous ark, made of plywood boards papered with peeling advertisements from Los Angeles walls loomed over an empty plain where homes once stood, surrounded by lots still marked by concrete foundation blocks that eerily
resembled crumbling
tombstones.