Interstice

Interstice, ceramic and steel, 2018.

This large scale work was constructed over several months in four slab sections. The piece is a representation of a Sunderland tower block based on a distorted digital image occupying the area between two versions of recorded street view imagery from Google. The piece presents this simulated three-dimensional reality while retaining its two-dimensional nature. Through exhibition this piece is pushed awkwardly into real space for scutiny, as a deficient and estimated architectural statement. 

Brick clay local North-east of England was used as the main foundation of the piece, surfaced with two layers of black and white clay. The imagery was carved by hand forming the relief surface. Ceramic was a critical material to use for this piece, as its appearence does not bely the means of its production, the work is made from degrading materials and importantly evidence the hand. A parallel mode of construction connects to the labour involved in even the most banal architectural solutions. 

Technology embelishes our understanding of real physical spaces. With this work I wanted to focus on the separation this causes from the experienced real.

In some way 'Interstice' embodies this moment in time when deficiency in the representation of the real is still evident. Where our means to represent remains for now, incomplete. 

 

References include 

Richard Wilson's ongoing dialogue around the built environment inspired this work. Where 

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Jordi collomer's reimagining of architectural space as an ongoing socio-political performance.