Closer Project Description

Meanwhile What’s so Close it permeates our daily experience... but, dispersed in vastness, it’s commonly left unseen. But from aFar, it becomes more coherent to our eyes. At 35,000 feet, air becomes atmosphere, and landscape becomes a poetry of elegant, ancient ideas, incomprehensible from the ground. Given a new form, it's brought into the nearness of our attention--only now as a concise something that we can relate to directly. But this form inverts the familiar with the unfamiliar, bringing forward what’s often dismissed as background noise, and making it into visual music. From a distance this larger vision engages the senses and emotions, and intrigues—but does not satisfy—the mind. The details we usually seek first, are instead subverted, the map divorced from its territory. Instead of providing an image that's highly-resolved everywhere, selective details are finely rendered, retraced by hand, and visible only upon a closer look. Up close, the vast poetry seen initially has broken apart. As a viewer moves Away again and then back in, complex, layered systems emerge and dissolve from his perception, a palimpsest of human activity appearing in a much larger context of geology and time. Its mysteries preserved, its poetry unexplained by excessive information, our innate familiarity with what’s all around us still provides us with footing as we are restricted and seduced into exploring the piece. It unfolds as we open.

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