Skyway Scrim - 2009

The architectural formations, surfaces and materials that make-up commercial offices, malls and corporate spaces create a dynamic relationship between form and void. These spaces are of interest to me for their ability to articulate absences and intervals between spaces that we are less prone to observe. The natural ability for such neutral environments to trigger moments of reverié and dislocations in perceiving allows for the observation of the void to be enriched and examined on a more conscious level.

Skyway Scrim is a series of black-and-white digital prints with overlaid color screen printing, involving the elevated pedestrian bridges of downtown Minneapolis. These passageways are void of people and are tightly cropped to enhance the 1-point perspective and recession of space. To contradict the allusion of receding space produced by the perspective, a brightly colored, opaque swatch of ink is printed over the digital images. Setting up these visual contradictions produces a kind of visual interference that hopefully enriches our awareness of seeing. This series started with a set of images of the London Underground taken in 2003 that produced a similar set of circumstances for examining space.

Space Constructions - 2005-06

In the Space Construction prints, different perspectives are crossed with each other in ways that are not possible, in an attempt to get the viewer to see two events at one time. These prints are made by taking pieces from particular architectural surfaces and working them into an image that represents several experiences of perception at once. I want perspective to stretch our ability to comprehend space by forcing it to form and reform along illogical lines. These overlapping experiences become a new event that is tangled and shifts focus. As the viewer attempts to find objects and pieces that are aligned, they must also shift focus and get caught in the tangled event. By struggling to see, they would become aware of their own visual perception. The viewer is confronted with seeing two spatial scenarios at one time and hopefully will understand how they see one, by seeing another contradict its spatial logic simultaneously.