shift lens
Factory Installed
The Mattress Factory
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
March 15, 2015 - May 27, 2016
Artists:
Jacob Douenias and Ethan Frier
Anne Lindberg
John Morris
Julie Schenkelberg
shift lens is a response to the front third floor 1414 Monterey gallery at the Mattress Factory that was likely originally used as a bedroom, with two sash windows, woodwork and painted wooden floor. I was particularly taken with how the windows present themselves as a lens, as though you are on the inside of a camera. I decided to stretch taut thread in vertical and horizontal directions within the architecture – in opposing cool and warm tones - in front of the windows to filter the natural light, to alter your vision and create a floating volume of color.
I made the work in scale to the body, with its bottom edge near ones' knees and its top at the reach of ones' hand as it reaches overhead. This is the zone of the body’s primal and physiological understanding of space.
