Seeing through it all

Seeing Through It All

Every exhibition is an opportunity to utilize the given resources to explore my questions and struggles.

The resources that presented themselves for this exhibit, most notably, were windows. Most galleries are white cubes, but the Cody Center is full of floor to ceiling windows to look out to the Texas landscape. For a site-specific installation, before this installation, I would use many different types of opaque tapes on the wall, but this space provided me with the opportunity to utilize translucent tape that works with natural light, creating luminescent and layered imagery. The other resource was a CNC router (computer numerical control), which transcribes digitally created drawings into cut stencils, allowing light to become the drawn line. Combining these two resources has given me a platform to utilize light in the exploration of what I consider personal iconography.

Some people draw me in, and I want to know why. I want to explore the mystery of relationships. What concepts and ideals do these people represent to me? If I look past the details of their lives and see what they mean to me, why do I feel compelled to know them? Through the incarnating practice of creating, I explore these questions.
-JW

2015

Curated by Meaghan Ritchey
Funded and Exhibited by Laity Lodge, a division of the H. E. Butts Foundation.