Edifice at The Point of Contact Gallery, an exhibition with Natalia Porter. For this our third collaboration, Natalia and I employed work by Boston-based Andrew Witkin. Selecting a series of texts and diagrams, to serve as a bridge, from written word to spatial arrangement. Witkin’s writings, which can be read as “lists”, are accumulations of thoughts that suggest a sense of order, but still remain abstract. They are organized in an undefined way and yet are quite concrete. They repeat, are rhythmic and include a sense of time and space.
As a starting point, I selected two lists from Witkin, this lists, in one way or another felt familiar to the way that I like to approach and question in my creative process. The challenge was to address this aspects, but preserving my most recent line of work. Such is the case of Pile-age and Pile-age Overlapped where concrete road divider basic shapes were placed, by lowering and rotating them, I physically covered his list to create a new composition of objects that in significance are close to the way these form of poetry is composed. This approach follows two of the colors I have been finding in sidewalks, temporary codes in bright orange and yellow, point out where street renovations are about to happen.
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(1)Concrete list piled. 140"x140" Letterpress prints on stonehenge paper, 8 frames (5 hand painted/treated).