Photo Documentation
A text documentation of the phrases/sentences in the work:
Visual effect of the work under low and high ambient lightings:
More comparison photos showing the visual difference in the text strips under UV light versus no UV light:
Artist's Statement
This work consists of plastic sheets with phrases and sentences written in UV ink, suspended by fishing lines across the studio where I completed my residency in Nelson, Canada. The text is drawn from the thoughts I recorded in the moment as I strung these fishing lines between the studio walls. This choice ties this work closely to my time and experience in that studio—it's a physical manifestation of the ideas that occurred to me in the space and returned to it in an analogous form to become part of the space.
This work materializes subjective experience within an objective space as a visual phenomenon, then—through an interactive mechanism—permits other entities (viewers) to witness it. By letting viewers to use an UV flashlight to illuminate limited areas of the work, the viewers are afforded only an limited glimpse of my “thoughts” at a time to mimic the characteristic of communication. Consequently, this work directs attention to the reality that an individual’s experience of a given space is both dependent upon and distinct from that space itself, while bringing this subjective experience—or the differences between individuals’ experiences—to the surface.