Open cuts: spaces, surfaces, shadows

Abstract

The project evolves out of an interest in understanding how we can relate to space – personal, psychological, architectural, environmental. And how this relationship might be based on definition and delineation of these spaces. If space were somehow destabilised then it would follow that we would have to alter our understanding of it and thus our relationship to it would also change. The works produced for this project aimed at creating a disruption in space through the use of mild visual illusions. This paper traces the journey of the research project, focusing on a series of key works executed during the candidacy that marked important achievements or shifts in my practice. The paper charts the practical and conceptual development of the work locating it within the practice and theory of art, film and architecture.