FLAT

Solo exhibition, Novella Gallery, New York, NY

“I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space.” –Edwin A. Abbott, Opening lines to Flatland (1884)

The world is flat. Perhaps that sounds ridiculous these days, but consider the depth contained in two dimensions. After all, we now ingest our world through images on flat screens. This is not a deficit to denounce. Instead, marvel at the richness possible in limited dimensionality: Implied depth through perspectival clues, modeling forms with light and shadow, and oblique viewing angles. A site-specific image can both flatten the real world and extract dimensions from the image. The long, narrow, and subterranean space of Novella Gallery offers an opportunity to experiment in two dimensions; to celebrate our flat world.

Projects exhibited in FLAT: Incident Angles, iPhone Panoramas, Memento Mori (after Holbein), Utah Teapots, Catoptriscapes