"Something Is Wrong with Our Compromise" attempts to evoke ideas about guilt, apprehensive complicity, and decay. The figures on the left are paused on a newly constructed staircase and look toward the stairs’ eventual rotting form, which is obstructed from direct view by a contemporarily designed interior structure. The figures seem to be aware of and discomforted by what lies on the other side and its connection to the space they occupy, yet they are insulated from its intensity by an elegant construction of similar transience. The inverted scales of the staircases and interior structure suggests the fleeting and peripheral nature of this dynamic’s impression. The faint uneasiness and uncertainty about their culpability for some ambiguous negative is meant to drive this work’s effect on the viewer and prompt examination of our relationship with physical spaces.