Transept 1999
This installation, created in collaboration with Jason Green in Den Bosch, The Netherlands, translates historical information to physical form with a focus on clay and digital technology as a carrier. Using architectural diagrams and cryptic impressions collected from the city’s largest cathedral, information was gathered and digitally manipulated to be remapped and projected in three dimensions. Carved plaster forms and dust markings plot a course on the floor, anchored by a slab of clay dredged from a local river. Framed by a drawing of a 17th century elevation plan for the church’s south transept window, the scene suggests land and water masses, and a subtle tension between old methods/new methods, tactility and disembodiment, in this abstraction of historical, real, and data space.
