Spark
In the Anthropocene, the sea is mostly spoken of as a level .. a number that will rise, a threat to land mass, to coastal living, to where we built our lives. We name her edges, and rarely her in-between.
Interstitium I turns to the waters differently .. not as a border to defend, but as the space we pass through. Between shore and horizon lies an in-between .. a threshold we cross to reach "the other side", or to be a while at and return from where we departed.
These are also waters as they might look when they no longer exist as we know them .. abstracted, unfamiliar, still becoming. The same greys read as water, as terrain, as tissue, as skin. She holds no single identity.
The body keeps such a space too. The interstitium* .. a fluid space held between the skin and the organs, neither fully outside nor fully inside. The sea is that space at the scale of the earth. To look at her, then, is already to look at a body.
And here, you decide what she becomes. Through the remote, you raise and lower the light from within her .. a tide of light, rising and falling at your hand. At one intensity, a calm and distant water .. at another, a landscape, a tissue, a skin. Details you did not notice rise up, others sink away. Nothing in the image is fixed. What appears depends on how you choose to look.
A tide is pulled by the moon .. a distant body that never touches the water, and moves it all the same. Now the remote is in your hand. You are the moon. From across the room, without touching her, you decide how high she rises.
Maybe identity is no different .. not something waiting to be found beneath a surface, but something that appears in the looking, and shifts the moment another hand turns the light.
I hand you the dial. See what she becomes.
*The interstitium is a contiguous fluid-filled space existing between a structural barrier such as a cell wall on the skin, and internal structures, such as organs, including muscles and the circulatory system.
Specification
Interstitium I (002)
Limited Edition
Lightbox
Image: Lambdaprint fronted by matte plexi, 100,8 x 80,3 cm (bespoke dimensions on request).
Lightbox:
* stained oak (bespoke versions on request),
* Size: 103,8 x 83,3 x 7 cm - 40.5 x 36.7 x 3.3 inch
* Remote controlled LED backlight remote controlled (on/off and intensity level).
Power: AC
Interstitium I (001)
Limited Edition
Lightbox
Image: Lambdaprint fronted by matte plexi, 100,8 x 80,3 cm (bespoke dimensions on request).
Lightbox:
* stained oak (bespoke versions on request),
* Size: 103,8 x 83,3 x 7 cm - 40.5 x 36.7 x 3.3 inch
* Remote controlled LED backlight remote controlled (on/off and intensity level).
Power: AC
Like the different seas in the world, Interstitium I comes in different prints.
Some of the prints are depicted here. Contact for more prints.
Some of the prints are depicted here. Contact for more prints.
Mapbox
This book outlines the conceptual and aesthetic thoughts while creating Interstitium I. Available on request.
Events
Tuesday June 1st - June 30th 2021 (delayed due to Covid-19 regulations)
Group expo international competition laureates.
Ocean Photography Exhibition, at Gallery 5’14, Edinburgh, Schotland
February 15th - March 1st, 2020
Group expo Tussenruimte at Scharpoord, Knokke, Belgium
June 17th - July 30th, 2019
Group expo international competition laureates.
Converge Las Cruces Art Gallery, located at the Southwest Environmental Center in Las Cruces, New Mexico
Behind the scenes
