Here, Kelley tackles the concept of the "utopian" city. Kandor is a city frozen in time, protected but suffocating. It is an architecture of nostalgia—a perfect, preserved past that cannot grow. By illuminating these models with eerie, colored gasses, Kelley turned architecture into a specimen. It is a critique of preservation: when we save a building or a memory, do we kill it? In these works, the architecture is beautiful, but it is ultimately a containment vessel.