Curious Interplay
Sign reflection
Interior shop
Exterior world
The static shop sign and the dynamic reflection create a dialectical sway.
“The street is a stage for the everyday.” – Walter Benjamin
Silex – Handy Breeze
Form experience
Object transcends
Present representation
Disparate elements appear as a collection of phenomena, particulars of experience awaiting interpretation.
“Art… is expression for expression’s sake.” – Benedetto Croce
Planes of Reference
Inclination longitude
Imaginary quantities
Coordinate axis
Working on art museum display electromagnetic radiation interactions
“We don’t all have to take the same coordinates to get to the same destination.” – Janelle Monae
Radiant In Its Own Right
Individual existence
Indifferent universe
Isolation defiance
The light bulb’s existence precedes its function.
“Technologies of illumination in this period had a great effect on how society operated and how people experienced space and reality.” – Richard Leahy
Immaterialism
Pigments applied
Empirical tenets
Perceptual act
What do we perceive besides our own ideas or sensations?
“But sight, touch, and hearing are all ultimately sensations in our minds.” – George Berkeley
Research into Perspective
In a convex way
Visual projection
Proceeding by expansion
A composition of asymmetrical symmetry featuring architectural lines and curves.
“We adore chaos because we love to produce order.” – M. C. Escher
Antler Chandelier
Skull extensions
Mirror reflection
Illuminator assemblage
Physical light is used to direct a moody rustic atmosphere.
“The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.” – Paul Scott
Eamlan
Transcendental
Vase of flowers
Lived experience
We are not simply passive observers, but rather interpreting participants.
“The world is not, then, simply there; it is there for me, for us, as a field of experience and action.” – Edmund Husserl
Croquet Fancy
In the sticks
Much a tale
Of who you ask
Over this time period individuals put much effort into recreation.
“Croquet is a very old game, widely known and practised in France since the XI century under the name of ‘jeu de mail’. Borrowed by the British around 1300, it was modified over the centuries: the Scots made golf out of it, the Irish turned it into croquet.” – Anthoine Ravez
Display Case Environment
Curious scene
Role of objects
Authentic reflection
The staircase only exists in relation to the display case, and the display case only has meaning in relation to the staircase.
“The objects encountered in the course of experience have volatilized to the point where they can be grasped only by the allegorical method.” – Walter Benjamin