GREEN CUBE

  This installation consists of a fabric cube suspended in space. Along one side of the cube, a series of small apertures allows access to the interior, where three paintings are installed. The only way to view the paintings is by approaching the work and looking through these openings.

  Continuing my exploration of seeing, being seen, and the ways systems of power shape perception, this work shifts the viewer from the position of a free observer to one whose gaze is carefully directed. While painting traditionally invites the act of looking, here that invitation is accompanied by control. The distance, the angle of vision, and even the requirement to look with a single eye are all predetermined.

  The viewer may feel as though they are secretly peering into a hidden or private space, as if engaging in an act of voyeurism. Yet this sensation is itself constructed by the work. Rather than looking freely, the viewer follows a visual path that has already been designed.

The work reflects on the relationship between power and perception, suggesting that control is not exercised only by restricting what can be seen, but also by directing how we see, from where we see, and under what conditions our gaze is allowed to exist.