Land scape
Stefanie Wolfson
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
and the intimate and personal connection the individual feels when immersed in it.
I created an installation with printed fabric and a projection of one of my video works,“ 4.13.14”. The video had ambient noise that allows the viewer to fill in the blanks and draw from their memory. The video does not show a specific or clear location. The video is of water, which flows into the fabric, allowing the two mediums to mesh together and to allow the viewer to, metaphorically, get lost in the space in-between. In this installation I also displayed one of my books titled“ WAVES”, which is an accordion-fold with the same image that was printed on the exhibited fabric.“ WAVES” is over 6 feet long when opened. It is intentionally unmanageable in size, causing the viewer to be unable to open this book completely without assistance from another person. Creative processes are too often distant and exclusive – disconnected from direct experience. In having viewers participate, forcing connections between two viewers, they become and intimate part of the work itself.
Your works have on the surface, a seductive beauty: at the same time they challenge the viewers ' perceptual parameters suggesting the unseen,