Tracing Space [2009]: a generic city of the imagination

Changing visions of the city are made up of advanced methods of construction, which are beginning to determine a realisation of a new environment. Superimposing new concepts on the existing patterns that constitute our understanding of urban situations are revealed in these prints as a generic city of the imagination.

An empty space calls for some kind of invention;
 
a non-programmed space,
 
in-between spaces; left over spaces that need to be filled.
 
The virtual movement, the use of skimming light reflected off surfaces; pulsations,
 
changed levels of luminosity and the interfering structures form a solidity that has
 
been captured as a still moment.
 
Light has no visible source yet it traces outlines and delimits space.
 
These prints capture the moment of transformation;
 
4-dimensions, n- dimensions, shadows and castings.

Marcel Duchamp wrote that since a 3D object casts a 2D shadow, we should be able to imagine the unknown 4D objects whose shadow we are. The emphasis in my work is on architecture, curving geometries and randomly positioned prints that are fragmented and make up spaces that were once empty. Irregular tracery, the actual inking and printing of the plates vary and characteristics emerge that are assembled in disparate parts to fill a void (the paper). Once suspended onto a white wall or enclosed inside a boxed frame, the prints begin to take effect. The sensation of experiencing space is entirely based on how it is viewed; this becomes the optical reaction.
Bernard Tschumi stated that, “ we are not dealing with a homogenous space but with a space that is always in question through movement or use…there is no architecture without an event; there is no space without action.” PG 35 Essays on Architecture