Truss, 2018
Timber, lights
Spring Studios, New York
Truss explores the spatial conditions of the bridges that connect Manhattan island to the surrounding landmasses. The vast steel bridges can be seen as undefined locations, with a spatial point of ambiguity occurring in the middle, neither one place or the other. These steel bridges are in a constant state of flux, vibrating through the transference of kinetic energy. Truss is constructed from timber which heightens the temporal nature of Manhattan's steel bridges. Yet, the work sits on one unified solid plane rather than over empty space. The viewer is invited to remain outside the structure so the internal space becomes unknown territory. Normal architectural conventions are destabilised while the work acts as a portal to bridge between the self and the other.
