Artist Kelly Akashi reveals the emotional and technical processes behind the latest Hyundai Terrace Commission, a site-specific installation on the Whitney Museum’s fifth-floor outdoor gallery. Featuring glass sculpture, metalwork, animated video, and framed objects drawn from the artist’s personal archives, the exhibition reflects on renewal, loss, memory, and the ways objects carry inherited histories. The exhibition meditates on the loss of Akashi's home and studio in the Eaton Fire and is anchored by "Monument (Altadena)," a recreation of the artist's chimney—the only structure left standing in the aftermath. In the words of Akashi: "I'm very interested in creating works that speak to other life or other objects being passive recorders of history. They…create these connective tissues between generations." The artist, in collaboration with an expert team of masons, crafted the sculpture in luminous cast glass brick to reclaim fire as a means of creation rather than destruction. Ac...