Encode pieces offer a playful new approach to seeing the city. This work understands information as a key element of cityscapes and offers three types of information.
First, the material and dimensional nature of hand cut glass is understood in contrast with the textured, etched and painted canvas. This object-ness is surprising and satisfying in a 2D art hanging. Glass, concrete and paint are borrowed from the material vocabulary of contemporary architecture.
Second. The viewer is invited to decode an abstracted word form. Encode subverts the signage and information ubiquitous in the cityscape where it functions to control or limit behavior and repurposes it with a personal message of optimism and hope.
Third. The pieces shift and change with motion and light for a constantly changing visual experience. A viewer is invited into participation, co-creating the work with infinite variability. This enaction points to the idea of embodied cognition with mind, body and environment acting as an integrated system.