Color oscillates between two layers of vinyl screen, producing bewildering moiré patterns and thus directly intervening in the viewer’s optic protocols. The double looped screen is a low-tech metaphor for virtual screen spaces, which are high-tech metaphors for “reality.” The painted surface coupled with its porosity complicates seeing volume, proximity and distance.
The misalignment of layers and perceptual confusion as one’s body and eyes move across the work creates unease in the viewer, as if the work, with its images of apertures, might be perceiving oneself. Blurring the distinction between subject and object both accentuates a viewer’s state of being dissolved by the screen’s gaze while the experience of the body must remain a key factor in the perception of space. In some pieces moiré is experienced as a phenomenon and a volume, and in other artworks moiré is an image. What appears to be the boundaries of seeing becomes an expansion of the singular body to other states of consciousness-the self as a subject of perception in the ever-present screen effects, within which we now reside.
The misalignment of layers and perceptual confusion as one’s body and eyes move across the work creates unease in the viewer, as if the work, with its images of apertures, might be perceiving oneself. Blurring the distinction between subject and object both accentuates a viewer’s state of being dissolved by the screen’s gaze while the experience of the body must remain a key factor in the perception of space. In some pieces moiré is experienced as a phenomenon and a volume, and in other artworks moiré is an image. What appears to be the boundaries of seeing becomes an expansion of the singular body to other states of consciousness-the self as a subject of perception in the ever-present screen effects, within which we now reside.
