Between 2007 and 2012, I created within the dining area of my apartment a series of informal proof of concepts demonstrating image registration within a layered three-dimentional space. It was a foray into visual phenomenon I’d been visualizing many years, expanding from the small box size area of my resin boxes into the space of an entire room.
Materials: ink
MEGASTENCH
The Rifle Boy
Clung Together Like a Magician's Skarf
Chimney Sweep
Frameless Resin Box
By 2007, I’d perfected my resin box creation process, employeeing a more sophisticated vacuum chamber and pouring resin into homemade silicone molds. After unmolding, these were suitable for viewing from all directions, not requiring framing. The ability to view the artwork from all angles matched my inspirational dream. Few of these were made, though, before I decided for various reasons to discontinue using resin.
- Resin is dangerous and despite my precautions, I had health concerns associated with daily prolonged use of resin within a home studio.
- Resin boxes are extremely heavy– even the small ones. Creating them at any scale simliiar to that of my dream was incompatible with my resources.
- Resin boxes are solid. In my dream, the figures were lifesize and I walked through them or at least between the layers.
I had to ask myself if my dream were a true vision of the future, then could the path forward be resin? Or should I move on and concern myself with materials that were more compatible with my vision? The answer was yes.