Our fetish with the aesthetics of machines is a recurring motif in art. The sculptures of Philip Topolovac are subversive, non-utilitarian pseudo-machines built to expose the way in which technology is either constructed to perfectly assimilate with its surroundings or designed to look more complicated than necessary in order to appear more functional, a market-driven phenomenon that leads to the creation of mechanical simulacra. Topolovac’s polyester casts of an ephemeral thing such as a sand pile on the other hand speak of man’s incapacity to construct anything that nature hasn’t already made, only better.