This is a project i came up with on the train ride home from Chicago yesterday, and I suppose it was inspired by the idea of showing the purpose of abstraction...
A one-walled "gallery" made simply of one black wall, a floor, a centered walkway and an overhang, placed in a rural area with a view with abstracted paintings of that exact view. Gallery construction will be minimal in appearance and material. Paintings will be rotated based on seasons for a total of four, large-scale images of the scene.
Viewers will happen upon the "gallery"and be forced to make a few decisions...view the painting close up and restrict your view of the surrounding area, walk past the "gallery" in order to see the natural landscape, but always knowing that a "gallery" stands close by, or view both at the same time, creating a strange and obvious juxtaposition between subject and interpretation of subject.
Do the images work together or will you segregate them? Will you allow each to state their case or hastily ignore one for the other? Can a piece truly capture that which it seeks, or will it always be a reserved to a separate realm?
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