The Solid Air works are reliefs and wall drawings. Their forms are made of layered and glued canvas, an additive process not unlike wood glue-lam. Like rings of a tree, they build a thickness of structured tension and strength and their layer upon layer accumulation speaks of labor and time. As self-structured forms they hang directly on the wall relative and adjacent to their reductive contour line counterpart made of graphite and pencil markings drawn directly onto the wall.
The works are sculptures and drawings, performing spatially through material, divots, and line. If each moment, in what Jean-Luc Nancy calls “space-time” is the conception of matter put forward through action, abstraction references the remembered traces of experience both through intentional perception and through material. Solid Air articulates, through gesture and object, the collapse of physical distance between the greater social and architectural space and the author’s individual and material decisions, unifying a spatial concrete form with an ephemeral outline. These works both hold and release space, forming a relational place between, like the self-reflective figure and shadow or a thought and it’s corresponding feeling.
