Evoking the concept of transformation. This work relates to the idea of passage between a mental or physical state to an other. Definition: “A corridor is a passageway into which compartments or room open or a narrow strip of land through foreign-held territory”. In this case it is a microcosm of a life change or a macrocosm of a simple moment suspended between the past and the present; a tactile and visual experience of a transition.
Overview
A mixed-media temporary installation encapsulating the idea of memories and distance that govern this transition and its different thematic ramifications, this installation features two almost parallel walls of gauzes that identify an intimate space within the core center of the gallery. Inside the “corridor”, steering the space through a random display of photo-encaustic images and shapes made with white clay or painted in white as traces of stories attached to the two walls of gauzes and/or left on the ground by the bottom of the gauze walls. The use of bees wax and gauzes is implemented as a healing components and effort to preserve memories in the process of metamorphosis.
The components of The Corridor are:
• An accessible space (Corridor) with two 8’ long parallel walls made out of 7’ 8” laired suspended gauzes.
• 15 to 20 black and white photo encaustic images size from 4”x6” to 6”x8”.
