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Jackie sought the support of her father, Roberto, who immigrated to the United States from Guadalajara in his 20s, with the conception and creation of the lilting terracotta and rebar sculpture.

By exposing the industrial rebar responsible for a building’s structural integrity, Jackie also draws attention to the workers responsible for the building’s construction, maintenance and repair.

On the right side wall, an image of twin rebar pillars jutting up toward a brilliant cerulean sky is interrupted by the trace of hardly discernible letters and numbers.

The earthquake has reduced it to a mountain of twisted rebar and shattered concrete, dwarfing the hundreds of rescue workers scurrying around it.

“I never knew so much about concrete and rebar.”