But, as Ford said in his interview, it's not the surface qualities but the "understructure" of his story that is connected to Slocum's.
"The understructure was a compete disaster, pilings were loose, joints and beams were rotting.
Up the road, and this is a major thoroughfare, the asphalt is coming away from the understructure of a bridge.
"It was a real challenge to cast the understructure directly into the resin, which we'd never done before".
(Platform, by the way, refers to the understructure of the car).
They decide what panels they're going to use, define the understructure, the operations and maintenance, etc.
He has an intuitive feel for the understructure of society, of the desires and contradictions on which it rests.
The understructure of this functional chair from BRC Designs is made from an outdated industrial printer, and the electronic arms and feet of the chair are made from a conglomeration of motherboards, computer chips, LCD screens and hard drive disks.
For the most part the paintings in this show, his 17th solo gallery exhibition in New York since 1972, depict the understructures of bridges and highways around Manhattan or abandoned sites in the high desert of southwest Texas, around Presidio or nearby Marfa.
It's an idyllic scene, notable as usual for its masterly detail, especially in the bridge's understructure and the carefully delineated cathedral.
