Shift is an octagon that has gone slack. It’s own materiality won’t allow it to
maintain its shape. It has its origin in the desire to move something out of it's
center forcing the viewer to consider the blurred space, the space where it moved
from its original form to its present condition.
In Lotus, the never-ending surface
of a ball is taken apart, converted into a new endlessness that is romantic.
There
is a story by Borges “Blue Tigers” in which a man is hunting for a rare blue tiger
in India. He finds a mark on the ground that further feeds his imagination. Then
there is another hint, or he believes that he just caught a glimpse of it in the
jungle's thicket. In the end he leaves the place without success, but his mind
got upset by a juxtapositional find. Trolling Vanguard is not a tiger; it is a
puma that is about to disappear again.
Reversed U and Islands are intimate microcosmic landscapes that explore the significance
of interconnectedness and interdependence.