Statement About Hypercube Project:
I have been drawing hypercubes since I was a young teenager. I became fixated by them after seeing a late night TV show about the Fourth Dimension. A hypercube is a two dimensional representation of a four dimensional cube. About five years ago I began taking 2 to 20 separate hypercubes and connecting them altogether usually in a spiral pattern.
Until recently my involvement with the hypercube has been merely a form of play and relaxation. The manipulations of hypercube structures existed mostly as doodles in my notebook. Over the past month my interest in the hypercube took a shift when I began exploring ways of incorporating the form into my art practice. I had made attempts before by inserting hypercubes into the composition of several paintings that had an awkward and forced effect on the image as a whole. Although from the experimentation I realized that scaling the form to human and above-human proportions could magnify the power of the hypercube. This realization was strengthened by experiencing the way minimalist and post-minimalist artists at Dia Beacon influenced the viewers’ perceptual experience of their art through its scale, arrangement and relation to its environment. I had been creating art that was mostly hermetic. The visit to Beacon cemented new approaches to my art practice that took the environment the work existed in into consideration as well as the viewers’ relation to it.
This new study of the hypercubes form in my art practice takes the appearance of mostly wall drawings made of tape and vinyl. So far I have made these pieces in scales ranging from feet square to 6 feet square. I would like to go larger as well as pose the various hypercube abstractions in arrangements that are both relational to the physical space they exist in and on as well as between each other. I want to create a environment or neighborhood for the structures to co-exist in where each piece has its own autonomy but is also a
