Acrylic, Mineral Wool Insulation. 2018.

3 weeks | under Mitchell Squire
Exhibited in Apex Art Show (Ames, IA. 2019)

This object represents an architecture of seduction, of absorption, of concealment, of interstices, and of scalelessness. Emerging from an intentional lack of engagement with context, locale, or situational nuance, the object interiorizes any entity it engages with —landscape, urbanity, population, commodity et. al. — subsuming it and transforming it into an apparatus of it’s own device. Presenting a face of endless complexity that transfigures the object of focus, this object hides in plain sight, obscuring it’s intentions and abilities. Only through the act of dissection is information revealed. But what is gathered through this process is minimal at that, the interior being as interwoven and collapsed as the image on the face. Some details do begin to emerge— the proportions of assembly, the methods of attachment, previously ambiguous formal manipulations — but most remain unclear. Further dissection leads to further clarity yet further uncertainty, revealing spaces whose relation is unknown. This object also takes no discrete scale, being both a piece and entirety simultaneously.

 What is to be done with an object like this? Can its logics be appropriated, or potentially inverted? Instead of being a tool or maintaining the norm, can it become a vehicle for change? How can we appropriate it’s tendencies, but profanes it’s uses?