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My recent practice has questioned the use of space and how it can be represented in distance between viewer and object. How do we relate to empty space? Why do we change our perception or even perspective of an object when the space between is highlighted or distorted?This installation shot shows strands of stretched brightly coloured wool emanating from an acrylic painting depicting impressionist Pierre August Renoir's Two Sisters on the Terrace.It is representational of using site-specific work relating to the walls and floor of a rectangular room with some influence from Tomas Saraceno's installation of Galaxies Forming Along Filaments, like Droplets along the Strands of a Spider's Web of 2008. In his work, he uses unevenly balanced, radiating bands of elastic with a central bulbous core that stretches to the floor , walls and ceiling. The strands create a perspective demolishing, interwoven space with which the viewer can communicate.Lights create a reflection of floor to ceiling which magnify and intensify the space.

My work above, creates an explosive scenario of colour  achieving an oblivion of inventive spaces previously not envisaged but which can now be represented by involvement with the viewer in exploration and interaction.

john

Hi James,
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