Pigment prints
26 1/2 x 40”
Ignasi de Sola-Morales, the Catalan architect and historian, coined the term “terrain vague” to characterize urban areas marked by vacancy and indeterminacy. When in a terrain vague space, it is often difficult to determine its boundaries. They are sites that foreground the process of construction and deconstruction and underscore the ambiguous transition from one state of “being” to another. As a result, these spaces evoke a strong sense of being in between histories, function and time. This activates them to explore a number of seemingly diametric relationships – those between presence and absence, inscription and erasure, preservation and ruination and appearance and disappearance.
At its most elemental, this work is an examination of space – both physical and psychic. By destabilizing spatial associations within the photograph, I hope to broaden the exploration of space – acknowledging it both as a corporeal experience and a mental construct. It is this duality, between the physical and the cognitive, that I am attempting to call attention to in this work.
At its most elemental, this work is an examination of space – both physical and psychic. By destabilizing spatial associations within the photograph, I hope to broaden the exploration of space – acknowledging it both as a corporeal experience and a mental construct. It is this duality, between the physical and the cognitive, that I am attempting to call attention to in this work.