Silent Space ( 0000, Original ) by Christina Bryant

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This piece came from questions of positive and negative space and what it actually is. I am looking first at how positive and negative affect each other; what does the appearance of one object in a particular state do to another in something different. We see in this piece the two objects working against each other, unbalanced by this alteration in appearance. Two objects with identical shape and mass suddenly are pushed to be something else. One shies silently back while the other gives the illusion of a greater presence, and appears to the viewer to be more there than the other. It opens up questions of visual illusions and distortions, asking whether our reality is an actual physical presence or more an idea of physicality.

This piece shows the simplicity of the question. What is reality? And made it’s self as I mulled over the idea of our space as an illusion. Through a simple act of altering one factor I saw that so much in what we saw and how we read it change.