Chasm was created as the entrance way to the Nomads Land area within Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas. The figure, roughly formed to suggest the inner city and urban decay, is being torn in two, yet there’s serenity on her face.

The work is a call for unity, especially the unity of contending ideas – despair and hope, collapse and continuity. Beneath the cleaved face, a brightly lit passage leads the viewer both out and through.

Chasm embodies the essence of a decaying urban relic. From the remnants of a demolished, desolate structure, a feminine figure emerges gracefully, with derelict gas pipes jutting out from the rubble. The entrance way installation was conceived as a temporary piece to run over a three year span.
 
Once Chasm’s structure was complete, Popper collaborated with graffiti artist A-A-Ron, who led a team of artists, to embellish the work with various styles and layers of street art, creating the impression that generations of artists had made their mark over eras in the postapocalyptic Nomads Land dreamscape.