Between Looking and Seeing
Installation made with dichroic film, PVC pipes, clamp lights, colored sand, mirrors, wood, fresnel lenses. 2017.
Created using light-responsive, perception-altering materials, this work explores the relationship between observation and reality, and what lies beyond our "observed reality." The pyramidal forms seem to disappear and rematerialize as the viewer walks around them, shifting color and value in response to the one's proximity to the work.
Other elements appear three-dimensional from afar, but upon close observation are revealed to be flat. In making this work, I was interested in causing light itself to look as though it were changing state from liquid to solid, and to create a sense of the past and future conflating, as though witnessing both the Big Band and a futuristic landscape simultaneously.
