2.5 x 7 Installations. Mylar.
The focal point of this installation is to engage the viewer to acknowledge their presence and/or dogmas within their critical perspectives. Mirrored mylar achieves this desired intimacy for its delicate and semi-reflective qualities. It is important that the mirror itself is the object of inquiry. These mylars metaphorically represent a mirror as an entity that is able to both reveal and conceal the nature of something. To convey the concept of a paradigm, the phrases stenciled into the mylar are intentionally styled in a fashion, which mocks tradition typographic standards and grids, though tastefully.
The proportions of the pieces draw from human proportions but they are raised a foot from the ground, with the phrases ominously looming just above the average eye level. The phrases intimately narrate a viewer’s relationship with all of the contexts that are involved in critical analysis. These five mylars are placed within close proximity of one another, separate, yet connected as if conversing.
The title, Ekphrasis, which means ‘poetry or poetic writing regarding the visual arts,’ seeks to remind the viewer that all of the practice–specific contexts which may form this sort of mirror-like entity are entirely valid as grounds for critical analysis, however, incomplete in the consideration of the greater goals of graphic design.
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