What happens between two and three dimensions? Between light and shadow? Between boundary and space? Between clarity and abstraction? How do we negotiate these phenomena and on what terms? The interpretation of these binaries is, of course, subjective. We each have our own relative experience from which we draw our own conclusions. With this in mind, my role as a maker is to continue finding ways of asking these questions of the viewer. It is in the asking that we address the unknown. I seek to create imbalance, to ask questions for which there are not answers. By doing this we expose unknown truths about our reality and how we are at liberty to interpret it. The strategies I employ specifically involve the experience of the visual, within which I am drawn to architectural form and the contemplation of space. Occupying this realm of inquiry requires an acknowledgment of modern and postmodern ideologies, as well as the properties of construction materials and the sociological and psychological impact of the spaces we inhabit. Shelter, boundaries, containment, access, craftsmanship and the viewer’s perception are all in constant negotiation during the process of making. However, these considerations are not a simple checklist, but an intuitive progression that is not complete until a suitable feeling of balance or imbalance is achieved.
