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Concept
I want to test my ability to hold in my mind the proportions
and directional orientation of spaces I inhabit daily and
remake them in another place - with tape defining
horizontals and cord hung with plumb bobs defining
vertical edges. I intend to make a 3-D wire-frame of
remembered space. What better place to conduct this
performative mapping than in the very disorienting space of
a mine?.
Wire-frame constructions today exist almost exclusively on
the computer screen. The computer is one of my favorite
tools, but I like conflating the ideas of line as a geometric
concept and line as something physical (tape, cord, wire,
etc.). There is an appealing awkwardness to things made
plumb by rudimentary means, which stands in contrast to
what can easily be achieved with a keystroke.
The piece would function as a performance but I imagine it
primarily as an exhibition of its remains. I think the "line
drawing" in space would be formally beautiful. And
because the objects and intervals in most urban domestic
spaces are common, the lines might suggest to the viewer
rooms and furniture and appliances, all reduced to their
edges. It would have a ring of familiarity as a map of the
kind of spaces we know.
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