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These works present a hypothetical journey through the modern living space. I offer the viewer new insights concerning interior space, to see relationships or subjects that oftentimes go unnoticed because of their familiarity - either from the typcial five to six foot high vantage point or the mundane object such as the light switch.
I ask the viewer to consider the concept of time as an aspect of space itself. Time is a universal constituent that is always moving, changing, and morphing. It occurs at all points within space and therefore, becomes space itself. However, within the familiarity of a room with four walls, time understandably is perceived to stop.
The perceived static quality of the cubic volume disillusions us to think that space and time stands still; yet, as we change our perspective or point of view, the nature of time becomes more obvious and, as a result, alters the perceived form, sometimes dramatically, of the space we are engage in. In turn, the familiar becomes unfamiliar, such as the observer at floor level looking up into a room. These images were constructed using exaggerated vanishing points and, as a result, the drawings became more than a documentation of a place per se but a compositional exercise in shape and form.
Complementing the painted images, the photographs speak to a more surreal quality of interior form by making an allusion to the bending of space and time. Since they are faint echos of an actual interior environment, emphasis is placed on compositional structure and the effects of color and light within space. Because of the significant departure these images share from the traditional point of view for a typical interior perspective, this body of work not only hopes to draw appreciation to the familiar but to also invite the viewer to contemplate on a deeper level the relationship between interior space and its human occupants.