This body of work evaluates our perception of space through the layering of misaligned perspective. It addresses western perspective and representation on multiple levels. The work challenges our insight on drawing and photography, in relation to refraction. In general, I am dissecting a space; manipulating and disrupting it to a degree of uncertainty.
The series of ten photo-collage paintings were presented for my thesis exhibition at The Burren College of Art in Ballyvaughan Ireland. These drawings begin in a corner where I create a topographical grid that describes an imaginary plane. The materials that make up the lines of the drawing are three-dimensional. The drawing that they make is a two-dimensional drawing describing, through the use of perspective rules, a three dimensional space. The lines that make up this space, which pretend to extend from the viewers feet towards a distant horizon, physically lie flush with the wall. The rules that govern this plane only exist from a specific viewing location. Outside of this location, the grid becomes distorted. The instability of perspective in this situation creates a myriad of possibilities for space and its representation.
The purpose of drawing is to create an illusion within an illusion, using the paper for what it is supposed to be used for, to create this phenomenon of greater visual space.
