Throughlines: Thoughlines: Times Square
2025, Projection, 00:01:56 Patron will receive a wall-mounted heightmap sculpture to serve as the base of the projection. Shipping and projector not included. Contact sampricestudio@gmail.com to coordinate sculpture delivery and installation. Sculpture specifications: Acrylic on PLA; ~13" x 23" x 1.25" Learn more on https://sprice.studio/throughlines
“Throughlines" takes inspiration from archaeological studies of prehistoric cave etchings, nicknamed "spaghetti lines" by researchers. To the untrained eye, these features, often cut underneath paintings of local fauna, seem intentional, but the reasoning for their placement is unclear. It is only when a light source moves through the space that the animals depicted appear to shift, emerge, and disappear.
These pieces were hidden deep within caves far away from the outside world, a sacred, distant reflection of reality. In the cave paintings, according to archaeologist Edward Wachtel, "…time and space … appear inextricably connected… with their past, present and future more compressed into a never-ceasing now…"
"Throughlines" builds upon this spirit with modern iconography, a series of overlapping films complementing physical textures adapted from topographies of NYC footage. This contemporary adaptation of the oldest known animation technique memorializes today’s chaotic environments in a more meditative medium, turning transience into artifact and compressing a chaotic past, present, and future into a suspended, luminous state.