Smoke & Mirrors Install

Smoke & Mirrors addresses the concept of Urban Heat Island through large lenticular prints, sound, and other ephemeral elements to sculpt a holographic visceral and visual experience.

Locality and community remain at the center of my ideas when I develop work such as Smoke & Mirrors. I try to remove myself from the void of expressing a self-centered experience to take a step back and critique what it means to be a young American in a Super Modern society.  This vantage point requires me to have a different view of my impact on public and environmental ecology. The variety of materials in my works open up to different forms of sculpture and illusion that expand on natural elements and man-made assimilation of these forms.  Attempting to mimic a concept like a natural disaster through artwork is my form of visual control, and is integral to the shape of social discourse I ask of the viewer.

NOTES:
This installation was new for me and it was important that the work was experienced rather than viewed. I designed a monofilament hanging system that allowed each piece to float away from the wall and create a circular structure in the room. The spacing between the individual pieces and the wall were designed to enhance the perceptual feeling of seeing the change in the imagery. The invisible system and the cyclical experience of seeing the change was activated and revealed by the viewer to pull them into the concept. Since this exhibition I’ve employed this technique in a variety of formats to elevate and levitate 2 dimensional works into a 3 dimensional space.