Welcome
This work explores the issue of how we experience space, how we relate to our surroundings. In the construction of walls and the laying down of borders a sense of our own ‘Being there’ is also established.
Welcome begins to draw out a personal space for the viewer to inhabit. 3 vertical walls delineate a minimum human space – the dimensions relating to a shower cubicle or phone box.
A circle on the floor marks the spot:
‘You are here’.
However, alike to awareness of one’s own presence, this architecture is only temporary and contingent.
Red pathways signal elsewhere. The transparent walls are distorted by light and the image of cobbles – that material most usually solid and stable beneath our feet.
It is this duality of attraction and apprehension experienced in a new place, intensifying a feeling of self-awareness, that the artist wishes to communicate in the work.
Welcome 2002
Screenprinted Acrylic Sheet 3 x 3 x 2.5m
