Navigating the contemporary hyperreal space, the focus of our recent work, both independently and collaboratively, engages with embodiment – the everyday attunement and experience of physicality – perception and the corporeal form. Through explorations of distortion, transformation and growth, we take up the representation and manipulation of the crystal and its habits as a means of examining bodily health, progress and metaphysical constructions of space.
The crystal as form offers polymorphic viewpoints, refracted/distorted images, and divergent ideas. Alternatively, the crystal is also a means of focusing, narrowing and converging. Taking into consideration this dichotomous inward/outward lens, our collaboration intends to embody an evolution of growth, multiplicity and potentiality.
Within this “crystal lab”, experimentation and multidisciplinary practices are cultivated through an ever-changing understanding of the crystal as form, as representation and as metaphor. Visits to sensory deprivation salt tanks, biodiversity museums and salt caves each allow for varied investigations of the effects of crystals.
The work we present within this collaboration includes animations, photographs, drawings and sculptural objects, each taking up a different perspective on the crystal-as-lens or crystal-as- mediation. It is our intention to investigate contemporary illuminations of corporeal flux, blurred boundaries of realities, thus complicating the already mysterious experience of being-in-the- world with an even greater open-endedness of embodied perception.
The crystal as form offers polymorphic viewpoints, refracted/distorted images, and divergent ideas. Alternatively, the crystal is also a means of focusing, narrowing and converging. Taking into consideration this dichotomous inward/outward lens, our collaboration intends to embody an evolution of growth, multiplicity and potentiality.
Within this “crystal lab”, experimentation and multidisciplinary practices are cultivated through an ever-changing understanding of the crystal as form, as representation and as metaphor. Visits to sensory deprivation salt tanks, biodiversity museums and salt caves each allow for varied investigations of the effects of crystals.
The work we present within this collaboration includes animations, photographs, drawings and sculptural objects, each taking up a different perspective on the crystal-as-lens or crystal-as- mediation. It is our intention to investigate contemporary illuminations of corporeal flux, blurred boundaries of realities, thus complicating the already mysterious experience of being-in-the- world with an even greater open-endedness of embodied perception.
