unlimitedInfinities [detachable diptych] [2013 – 2014]
How many collage layers does it take to visually convince an exact balance between the infinitely dense and the infinitely empty? I wanted to play around with perceptions of (pictorial) scale and depth; hence, I attempted this large-format collage as a way to experiment with a set of highly compressed chiaroscuro depth cues. Ultra-magnification of the unimaginably infinitesimal.
Notions of nano “spaces” intrigue me. No *matter how reduced the (sub-atomic, String level) scale, there is always the “space within”. Moebius models as stand-ins for infinite intra-quark component commingling seemed appropriate, ..hadronically, speaking.
The creation of countless collage layers also generated a complementary heap of hand-cut remnants of archive grade inkjet paper. And as I am continually wracked with dread of waste of almost any sort- I then assembled the negative remains into the diptych’s alternate panel of negative infinities. (Hmm-mm, ..might there actually **be more than a single capital-I Infinity?, out there, somewhere?)
Or in there, somewhere??
Materials: Archival honeycomb board, inject printed paper, UV-protected matte medium, wood, acrylics.
Dimensions: 30.5”L x 5”W x 37”H
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* Pun intended.
** “Be”, as in can we possibly conceive of infinite infinities?
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