This sculptural installation and the accompanying drawings explore how 3D space can be represented on a 2D surface and vice versa, using familiar pictorial conventions such as linear perspective and the grid. The false wall, with its sculptural elements behind glass, aims to echo standard techniques of artistic display, mimicking a painting-on-a-wall. But it ultimately subverts expectations with its actual three-dimensionality. The planes of foam board intersect at odd angles to create a complex geometric surface, which bounds and defines the enclosed space behind the glass, but also implies pictorial space through its structure and the elements drawn upon its surfaces. In this way, the piece is both 3D and 2D at the same time, and the boundaries between dimensions become unclear.
My project is in dialogue with the cubicle-like configuration of the studio itself, with its three white walls arranged at right angles. I hope to involve the viewer in the active process of seeing and perceiving, demonstrating the trickery or shortcomings of optical impressions and making the viewer reflect on their relationship to space and images.
