A catalog for accidental artworks involving safety cones.
A safety cone is a signal of hazard and a gesture of care. Stationary yet directive, silent yet commanding, the cone is both artifact and oracle—marking a moment of instability with quiet authority.
This ongoing project seeks out cones in the wild—on streets, in alleys, construction sites, parking lots—each one forming part of a spontaneous sculptural arrangement shaped by context, neglect, or unseen hands. These configurations are not authored but assembled by happenstance, weather, urgency, or bureaucracy. I treat them as found compositions and scan them using photogrammetry, capturing not just the objects but their fleeting placement in time and space.
Each scan becomes a digital shrine: a preservation of caution, care, and liminality. The project operates as a growing archive and spatial ethnography, collecting overlooked signals from urban infrastructure and treating them as monuments to informal order. To encounter a cone is to cross an unmarked threshold—between safety and exposure, maintenance and decay, attention and indifference. These scans remind us that progress often wears the costume of interruption, and that even the smallest markers of disruption carry sculptural and symbolic weight.