But he’s also a jack-of-all-trades, a cross between a mad scientist and a garage tinkerer. In “Yakuza Lou,” an installation that is on view until the end of February at Materials+Applications — an outdoor nonprofit space in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles — Sykes pulls out all the stops. In exploring a new type of surface manipulation with a firm footing in real-world materials and construction methods, Sykes began with something as pedestrian as a mailbox reflector: Read more…