Brian Bales
Trans(X)position I: Hyperslice
wood, steel, silver, plexiglas, light, shadow
2003

Somewhere between the polarities of concept and craft, theory and text, lies the fundamental idea we have come to know as art. I seek to find that stripped-down notion of art as it relates to experience. Through a basic approach to art making, I am seeking to place the viewer inside the machinations of themselves, stimulating an experience alert to the melded realms of two and three dimensions.

Space is perceived in two ways: in two dimensions, as with a mark on a page, and in three dimensions, as with an object in space. Spatial perceptionin two dimensions is ethereal and mystical, whereas in three dimensions it is the experience of solidity and physicality.

The elements of my work are steel and space, light and shadow. I construct linear forms that interact with light and space; the complexity of the work derives from the resulting relationships, which are temporal and fleeting. While starting out as constructions and compositions, the work ultimately appears as images interacting with objects, confusing the viewer's ideas about the difference between two and three dimensionsand challenging his or her experience of space.

- Brian Bales