Begun in 2017 while I was living in Tokyo, this series of wall sculptures is reflective of Japanese minimalism. Central to the series is a sketchbook whose entries are approached like visual puzzles. An experiment in pareidolia, the sketches begin with a few abstract black marks on a white page and are “solved” by the application of arbitrary rules. The finished compositions invite interpretation by the viewer like seeing shapes in clouds. These two-dimensional drawings are brought up to the third dimension by breaking them apart and reconstructing them as objects. I recreate lines and forms with hand-shaped and painted pieces of thermoplastic mounted on panels. When viewed frontally, the sculptures often appear as little more than lines on a page. However, they reveal their dimensionality when viewed from other angles, challenging the notion that the truth of anything can be fully known from a fixed perspective.
