The titles in Untrustworthy Ground record fragments of text left in wet concrete by an anonymous public. Whether philosophical or profane, the artist has protected and amplified each phrase equally by filling their impressions with molten bronze. Earlier series exhibit a similarly paradoxical, violent yet careful application of metal. In his 2019 show at Susan Inglett Gallery, Slim, You don't got the Juice!, Wilson IV used thousands of staples to affix printed images culled from street advertisements for local Philly businesses to large sheets of plywood. The staples, like the bronze, simultaneously obscured and protected, defaced and amplified an anonymous black subject.

In both bodies of work, construction materials used to control movement (plywood hoarding to prevent entry, concrete barricades to regulate passage), become a platform for the very voices they are meant to contain.