Mapping the Studio, Sculpture Space, Utica, NY, 2008.
This project involved drawing out and partly assembling an illusion of the studio space and its objects onto other pre-existing objects in the space. For example an illusion of a chair in the studio was created partly on the real chair, partly on 2 walls and the floor. As viewers walk in, the objects begin to distort and break free into strange shapes stubbornly fighting the architecture and retaining the angles of a now-inaccurate perspective. This creates a sort of space- time hiccup where we are free to move but our earlier perception is not.

A video is generated during the creation of this fictional space around me. In the mapping process, a video camera looks through the drawing of the illusory space on glass into the actual space with me in it. I co-relate my drawing on the floor, walls and other pre-existing furniture in the space to the image seen by the camera via an enlarged projection of it. I continually watch myself in the projection as I map out a version of perception that is not true to my current place in space-time (but I momentarily subscribe to) as attested by another video camera placed elsewhere revealing the absurdity of this one point view and my awkward attempts at trying to match it.