Binocular Rivals: Refractive Error 1, 2022

Acrylic paint on wood panel, screen-printed anaglyph 3D glasses optional for viewing

8 x 8 x 0.75 in.

My practice is driven by the ever-expanding potential of drawing and by the elasticity of perception. Committed to low-tech modes of seeing and making, I aim to produce singular viewing experiences whose full effect can only be witnessed first hand. These days I am especially compelled by the double-edged nature of visual cognition, a tool for efficiency and survival yet rich with pitfalls and glitches: as it fills in missing information and discards unwanted data, the brain is constantly drawing. It is within these faulty and often hidden areas of seeing that I find the most excitement.

In my latest project, I engage the effect of anaglyph 3D glasses through large scale red-and-cyan drawing installations and smaller discrete works on panel. To the bare eye, the works generate a potent vibration as the high-chroma hues clash and collide in a variety of patterns and configurations. When seen through 3D glasses, the image now flickers relentlessly between background and foreground, positive and negative space, and flatness and volume. As each lens masks its corresponding color, the brain fails to integrate the picture as a complete whole. The resulting effect, disorienting both in a physical and psychological sense, is compounded by the spatially ambiguous compositions.