Perpetual Frontier Viewing Unit, 2019
30”x75”x20”, Steel, found objects, screen print, acetate, hardware, wood, rubber, LED
30”x75”x20”, Steel, found objects, screen print, acetate, hardware, wood, rubber, LED
Standing tall, facing its reflection with one mechanical arm outstretched, the viewing apparatus both illuminates and distorts the information it provides. Suspended within a frame are the fragmented moments of a slowly rotating perpetual alien landscape. The transparent film is struck with light, casting obscured shadows, a conflation of multi-layered, oppositely alternating imagery. Despite the exposed mechanism revealing a system that suggests enlightened clarity, this piece denies the viewer with a certainty of knowing, while imposing a structure of limitation onto the imagined natural.
Portal I, 2019
24”x36”x3”, Steel, mirrored plexiglass, screen print, LED
24”x36”x3”, Steel, mirrored plexiglass, screen print, LED
Evoking multi-layered references to a sci-fi reimagining of mirrors of myth and folklore, the ongoing Portals project takes up retro-futuristic tropes of the techno-utopian, while aligning them with psycho-spiritual perspectives through which the technological is so often viewed in connection to the magical. As a collage of media, the steel framed reflective plane is glowing in a ring of green light and distorts the image of the viewer at a distance. Through careful examination, a faint, dissipating grid can be found, imposed on this portal of access to the realm of mysterious and supposedly infinite alterity. As the project grows, a system of connected objects will interact with each other, casting patterned reflections into each other, forming a pathway that the viewer cannot access but only disrupt.