Ezra Ednas brings together a reworked LEGO composition, photographs and personal objects to mark the end of a marriage while preserving its place in the artist’s life. Through changes in attribution, redaction and the relocation of photographs, Seth gives existing materials a new role. Re-authoring these objects provides a sense of closure while allowing their shared history to remain part of a life moving forward.

Medium: Mixed-media assemblage
Materials: LEGO elements, two rusted metal panels, Leica Q2 photographs, aluminum tape, handwritten Data Frame, magnets, green park chair from Seward Park, plant book, wooden bowl, broken ceramic pitcher pieces, jar, Shinola bocce ball set and tote and a signed Just Kids by Patti Smith
Location: The Rigley Field

Components and arrangement

The LEGO composition
Seth designed the central composition in 2020–2021 using the LEGO atlas set, supplementing it with specially ordered pieces from third-party sellers. It hung in the apartment he shared with his then-husband on Eldridge Street until Seth moved to The Rigley Field in fall 2025.

In February 2026, Seth reworked its attribution. SANDE, originally formed from the names Seth and Eric, was reversed to read EDNAS, while EZRA was incorporated throughout the composition. The original attribution remains within the work, reoriented to acknowledge its history and establish a new direction.

Two photographic perspectives
The upper metal panels originally held two sets of photographs: images of Seth taken by his ex-husband and images of his ex-husband taken by Seth, all photographed with a Leica Q2. Together, they recorded how each saw the other.

Seth initially redacted the photographs of his ex-husband with aluminum tape. In September 2026, he removed them and placed them in the jar below. Their former positions remain visible in the panel’s rust, and the exposed surface is now a Data Frame reading “NULL.” The photographs of Seth remain displayed on the upper panel.

The chair and collected objects
A green park chair from Seward Park holds a plant book from Seth’s grandmother and a wooden bowl made by a local Nashville artist. At the center of the bowl are broken ceramic pieces from a serving pitcher gifted by Seth’s first assistant. The jar preserves the photographs removed from the panel above.

Beneath the seat is a Shinola bocce ball set in its tote, purchased for annual summer visits from his ex-husband’s nephew. Below it rests Just Kids by Patti Smith, a book his ex-husband often mentioned reading when he first moved to New York City. Through that repeated association, the book became another object carrying Seth’s memory of him.