Inflorescence

Floorworks/Relative Space, Toronto, Ontario, 2009
Winner IDS Window Competition

I want to engage the physical properties of space and architecture with works that explore form and content (or, form versus content) in a personal way using a mundane, commercial material—sign vinyl.

At Floorworks, I started with a natural form—a group of flower heads—taken to an abstract extreme. I want the work to transcend its material to provide the instant impact of a huge abstract painting, which at the same time subverts the slow and labor-intensive process of hand-cutting large rolls of vinyl and applying it to the wall.