book of dots

As a response to various Harper’s Index facts, a project in Krzysztof Lenk’s class, I started studying reality versus fantasy, constructing something real out the unreal, and constructing the unreal from the real. Limiting myself to one size of stencil, playing with positive and negative paint over this stencil, and also limiting finishes to matt and gloss, white and black creates the vocabulary of expression to experiment with reconfiguration. The pages can be changed to create different counting configurations.

Investigating space through two dimensional sprayed patterns of dots plays with perception of foreground, middle ground, and background on a flat page. The white and black spray paint play in space to add depth and dimension to the flat page. Depending if the circles are in front or in back, they create shallow or deep space. Reinterpreting the surface allows te viewer to enter the space. The depth has negative space they can go into.