By using a true macro lens on my DSLR I’m planning on photographing tiny sections from my paintings showing the indexical trace of A Space That Once Was and projecting these images to a much larger scale. Playing with the perception of space with regards to scale I’m trying to highlight the fact that all too often we look, but we don’t see, or comprehend and therefore, don’t appreciate or understand what can be contained in all manor of spaces around us.
Rachel Whiteread’s negative space sculptures are prime examples of a space we may look at in daily life, but don’t actually comprehend that it holds a physical 3 dimensional space because there is nothing tangible there.
Similarly with the water droplet, there’s little comprehension that there is actually a space contained within it.
