Clearing

2011
Archival inkjet
13" x 10"
Edition of 12

 Artist's Statement: A recent project involves photographing interior walls of artists' studios, enlarging or sharpening their seemingly blank expanses to reveal layered traces of human activity: residual layers of mark-making, built up over time - traces of drawing, constellations of pinholes, and occasional scribbled text. By focusing a viewer's attention on walls which bear not only the weight of their construction but also the record of time passing within them, I aim to render time visible, condensed onto an architectural plane. The image oscillates between being read as a solid wall or as a weightless expanse of space. If "architecture presents the drama of construction silenced into matter, space, light,"1 then photography seems an ideal medium through which to explore the space of this silence.

1 "The Eyes of the Skin, Architecture and the Senses", Juhani Pallasmaa, John Wiley and Sons, Ltd., 2005, pg 46.