lens of perception II

lens of perception

At first glance, the photographs appear bluntly straightforward in their documentation, yet they are subtly disorienting. Some of this de-stabilization is accomplished through the use of transparent surfaces and different scales, in a self-reflexive mirror. They play trome l’oeil games with our sense of surface and depth. Glass and mirrors have the power to fragment and dissolve the images that play across them. By shifting the relationship between the viewer and the object viewed, the photographs disrupt the habitual ways in which we perceive familiar surroundings. By confusing spaces that are real spaces that are reflected, and spaces that are photographed, I ask the viewers to recalibrate their own lenses and consider the ways in which perception and expectation determine how they see as well as what they see. The double picture planes are a kind of looking glass into the visual experience. The material stages a dialectic of materialization and dematerialization through which viewers apprehend and experience the contemporary environment.

The attention to shadow, illumination, and other ephemeral phenomena contribute an emotive layer of experience to the representation of architectural space. The chosen viewpoints trying capture the place’s intrinsic dynamism, which befits a space that is constantly in flux, and whose simultaneous contrast of interior and exterior space, serves competing needs for motion and stasis. I favor a fragmented perspective that favors a multiplicity and dislocation.