Room for a view

Abstract

The porosity of material and processes that modify its internal space are microenvironments that provoke memories of extreme spatial relations in my lived experience. In my artwork, I use qualities and measures of space to allude to psychosomatic states of being. Materials are positionable on a spectrum of porosity with increasingly porous materials having qualities of flexibility, permeability and translucency. Felt, a constant in my material repertoire, implicates human experience, as it is not only able to visually convey a range of states of vulnerability depending on the density to which the felt has been agitated, but is made of protective animal hair with attributes similar to our own. These skin-like substrates, along with materials and processes performed upon them, which either increase or decrease internal space, are emblematic of the impacts of familial and social structures and atmospheres on one’s person. Tools and objects, either found used or referenced through sculpted materials and that have a designed purpose of altering and defining concepts of space, are arranged in relation to one another and with a state of felt. These abstracted social reenactments are placed in the architectural framework of the gallery as a metaphor for the body as a memory container.