Repercussions
A Series of Surprisingly Divisive EventsIn my site-specific installation and the new series of wall pieces, I continue my ongoing exploration in representingtime and space via geometry. In contrast to the multitude of digitalartists and architects who are engaged in foldingof time and space, I have developed a hand-made process for recording a complex series of events and actionswithin curvilinear space. The resulting objects constitute frozen points in time within these complex narratives as acomposition for the viewer’s consideration.To prepare my wall pieces, which reference the early pinstripe paintings of Frank Stella, I line sheets of archivalpaper with a latex caulk.
These evenly spaced lines then serve as measuresfor recording the pending actions--crunching, pinching, folding, crinkling, etc.—that impact the pictorial plane. I then set the chosen compositions witha polystyrene base. Unlike earlier explorations with shaped or slashed canvases, these pieces maintain the integrityof their original plane’s vertical and horizontal limits, even as the caulk lines emphasize both the beat of the actionsand the topographical aspects of the now three-dimensional space they occupy.The shift in scale in my site-specific installations takes my approach one step further in that I blur the line betweenobjects and construction, between space and applied artifact. By using the gallery's planes to emphasize theresulting negative space around my multifaceted surfaces, the largeinstallation piece underlines the progressioninto multi-dimensionality within the artist’s process.
