Catherine Graham
cafflg@hotmail.comIt is amazing how much the word ‘space’ signifies. It is all and nothing at the same time. Not only does it denote how much room an object takes up, but also an area of nothingness, an open space.
Our changing views on both space and time are not just part of a natural progression of knowledge through the ages, they actually affect the way we think about everything and set a limit to our knowledge.
The ‘Superstrings’ theory shows that the laws of nature are simpler and more elegant when expressed in higher dimensions. Dimensions are something we experience everyday and often take for granted, partly due to the emphasis placed on image by our present culture.
My work plays with the relationship between 2d, 3d and ‘empty’ space. Examining these relationships can challenge the axioms we use to describe the world around us.
Most of my work involves the dissection of basic shapes to form physical complex relationships within simple objects. However I am also interested in the ability of the flat image to abstract basic perspectival relationships we experience every day, the play of depth on a rectangular plane.
I hope to offer an alternative viewpoint and show that space in itself is full of meanings and possibilities, an enclosed room as mysterious as the realms of outer space.
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