The Containment Project explores the surfaces of oil storage tanks in East Houston, where time, exposure, and industrial use have transformed steel into complex fields of texture and color. What begins as utilitarian infrastructure becomes, through weathering and corrosion, a record of process—layered, fractured, and evolving.

These images are not constructed; they are discovered. Each surface carries the cumulative effects of environment and material, revealing patterns that shift between structure and abstraction. Lines, seams, and panels provide an underlying order, while corrosion introduces variation and unpredictability.

Removed from their original function, these details become studies in balance, contrast, and surface—inviting a slower way of seeing. The work sits at the intersection of industry and abstraction, where the physical reality of the subject remains present, but the experience is visual and interpretive.