Chris Rayn: Unknown Hero – Art Project

Unknown Hero

Art Project by Chris Rayn · 2012 - 2019

Featuring tiny workers striving to stand out amidst and stand up against giant techno-panoramas and machine worlds, "Unknown Hero" is exploring the existential struggle of the individual within the Kafkaesque machinery of society in the past, present and future.

Exhibit/License ⟶Introduction ⟶Artworks ⟶

Welding in front of Oriental Pearl Tower

Unknown Hero

Construction worker welding a steel frame

Making Fire

Welding a new high rise in front of Oriental Pearl Tower

Rising Jewel

Welders constructing new buildings in front of Jinmao Tower

Pagoda Building

Construction worker hidden in a steel frame skeleton

Caught in a Maze

Shadow of a Worker Installing a Window Pane

Placeholder

Bird's View of a Construction Worker and His Tools

Still Life

Welder clad in red at the top of new skyscraper construction

The Iron Man

Looking down from the unfinished roof of a skyscraper

Down Olympus

Construction worker on top of a giant glass door

Making Both Ends Meet

Construction Worker, Caught In Steel Beams And Iron Chains

Shackles of Existence

A worker stranded in front of Shanghai Tower's curtain wall

Stranded

Young Cabin Boy Worker On A Long Shift In The Excavator

Boy in the Machine

Construction worker chained high up to massive steel column

Prometheus

Construction welder hidden in steel framework

Camouflage

Construction worker kneeling at giant steel column amidst sc

Mortal Coil

A Worker leaving the steel frame construction at sunset

End of Days

Welders light up a construction site at night

Ghost House

A lone welder illuminates a skyscraper at night

Night Light

Art projects by Chris Rayn ⟶