Impossible Objects
These drawings build on a tradition of graphic inquiry optical illusions, their inconstant perspectives call our awareness to the act of interpretation itself.
The work plays with the possibility that all space- public-private, inner-outer, natural-synthetic etc. – is a continuum, made as it is occupied, in either thought or form.
The plane is a good place to explore dimensionality. As the delicate paper is distorted by paint and grows the worse for wear the paper becomes an object in its own right, taking my ideas for a ride.
On it, this recursive, irrational survey of cubic forms has emerged, phasing between dimensions signaling the surprising potentials of each juncture.
Casein, Gouache and Earth Pigment on Hemp/Straw paper 22”x 17”
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