Open Doors Expansion opened this past weekend. These are a few photos of my installation, Stairway followed by pictures of the work in progress and the original scale model. The work features a 20-foot steel staircase with a 6-inch cement base that surrounds a pre-existing wall and is covered in over 6500 collected/donated trophy statuettes.

Stairway will be on view at the Dallas Contemporary until January 12, 2008. I will continue updating this site with new photos, videos and text as it becomes available.

This installation would not have been possible without the help of my family, C+J Services, Martisa Asghari, Iraj Asghari, Alma Asghari, Leslie Connally, Joan Davidow, Benjamin Feldt, Till Richter, Arturo Palacios, Tristan Rhodes, Maximilian Toth, Jeremy at Austin MacFab, Myron at the Meadows Foundation, Cruz Reyna, Eagle Forklift, all the artists of Open Doors Collective and the hundreds of trophy donors who I have communicated with over the past two years. Photos by Shaune Kolber (1-3, 5,7), Hunter Cross (8,9) and Paul Abbott (4,6).

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