Innerscapes
Video 16:9 3:59 2011
The concept of exterior landscape is not limited to the physical elements of landforms such as mountains, deserts, hills, rivers, lakes, ponds, and the sea. It also includes living elements of land cover, including indigenous vegetation, constructed elements including buildings and structures, and transitory elements such as clouds, wind, rain, and sunlight. Interior landscapes are not simply concepts internal to the human mind. They are innerscapes, with obligations as substantial as those of the outerscapes, lacking the conventional constraints of the physical world but determined by private dreams, ghosts, and imaginings that belong to the psycho-subjective adventures of the architect.
Paintings have been representing landscapes through history. In this project, painting is used as a way of generating and explaining the innerscapes. Through a series of paintings and modeling techniques, its given scale and physical attributes to imagined elements, and ambiguously more conventionally dimensioned elements: Personal form to the formless, and personal formlessness to conventional form. Abstractions.