Stereoscopes: Spirit / Land

"Double" - Photographic Mixed Media on Wood Panel: 32" x 32" x 2"

Shift your perspective just a little bit and you can see something in an entirely new way. The art of Stereoscopes are an old way of looking, but the metaphor brought into the present provides a new way of seeing. This way of seeing through a diptych naturally matches our everyday double vision - two eyes, one image. I am exploring what is revealed when you take apart what you take for granted.

The diptychs I am working with are at times very obvious, as within the double house series.  While other times, the duplicity is more nuanced, as within the large landscapes that work with the blurred boundaries of land and sky. The play on double is always present as is the reference to spirit and land. 

The house shapes are place holders for bodies and stories and lives played out. As our bodies relate to the land we are simultaneously interacting with the energy of the space, the remnants of the past that are still shaping our present. 

In the landscapes, the duplicity hides within the unseen boundary between atmosphere and earth. Forever shifting and shaping our view, but not able to be pinned down.

Stereoscopy provides the illusion of depth.  In my work, the diptych pulls back the veil. 

Why is this important to explore? How often are we convinced of our worlds being fixed rather than fluid? Lines are drawn, limits set. We have bodies and we walk on the land and we are born and then we die. The end. What if we are porous and we swim in the air, with our feet being the only part of us pulled down? What if we shape shift into other timelines, rather then simply coming to an end? And....here's a big one, and what if the veil is really thin? The veil between all the shifting realities and energies at play. And all it would take to see it, to be it, to own the magic inherent within us and the land we reside with, would be to see things in a slightly different way?