Microsoft spelling error lines exist in a digital software and change how we act within it – they highlight errors and encourage us to correct them. In a similar vein, architectural structures alter the way we behave in a physical space.
My works ‘Ascending/Descending’ and ‘Walking around the balcony’ both visually map sounds, resulting in a 2-dimensional line that relates to our movements in a 3-dimensional space. The lines in both works are incorporated into architecture and encourage bodily and spatial awareness, aiming to alter the way that viewers move through the space.
In the installation ‘Look Around You’ the prints depict flattened versions of architectural structures, aiming to encourage the consideration of their aesthetic qualities and the awareness of the physical space around the work.
The red line in this installation demarcates the prints, mirrors, and the space, playfully and almost comically drawing attention to both. This playfulness, created by altering the lines with typefaces, aims to contrast the perception of architecture as serious. This alters how viewers interact with the architecture in the room and the mirrors heighten this by involving the viewer in the interaction between the painted line and the architecture.