surface obliterations II (liminal) evolves from previous exploration of continued transformation through repetition. Themes of intuitive gesture making in space, and process in plain sight are continued in a purely analog manner.

Having grown up pre-smartphone at the precipice of the transition from analogue to digital, a tension ensues between using one versus the other. To write, or to type?

Paper is scrumpled as before, embodying a liminal space — a space at the boundary of something. Surface folds are both emphasized and veiled through an additive process using a material of inherent transitional quality. The disposable gesture and artifact is once more aggrandized to a less ephemeral status, but now one that can be manipulated as an object.

“Depth is created by folding this surface. And obviously, in any real-life situation, the surface will bear the imprint of the political, material, social, technological and affective forces that shape it.”

Steyerl, Hito. “Chapter 15": Ripping Reality.” Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War, Verso, London, 2019, 199-200.