Piecing Together the Empty Interior

Abstract

Piecing Together The Empty Interior reflects on a body of digitally–produced photographic collages: “The Myth of Home” explores the psychological complexities of home as related to loss and longing. “Portraits” and “Portraits II” explore the room as a form of self–portraiture. In each of these works the room is portrayed through photogram images that depict an interior as empty, or in other words, devoid of people and objects. Here, an empty interior exists suspended in time in a state of entering a future or exiting a past. In this sense, an interior becomes an imaginary space pieced together in a virtual media and open to the construction of new interpretations about the architectural narrative of the room itself. The psychology and principles of Gestalt, and its influence on perception, provide a framework that situates these works as encounters with internal states of being; the mnemonic experience of space; and the embodiment of making images. These photographic works explore the transitory nature of empty interiors relative to memory and anticipation.