View At Arms Length

This installation is presented conjunction with Tucson Pima Arts Council's Fall Open Studio Tour, Saturday November 11 and Sunday November 12. The work deals with my ongoing interest in spaces that are created and divided up by various forms of urban infrastructure. This work focuses on the powerlines that intersect and obscure the view of my studio/apartment on the second floor of the Shane House. The act of looking and the discovery that comes from simply evaluating everything that lies between the viewer and the ostensible subject of interest-in this case my studio- is my primary concern. Day to day visual perception involves a tremendous amount of filtering and selective attention. I attempt to bring those elements that are filtered out into the foreground, bringing attention to the extremely dense visual field that exists around us.