| Summary: | Suburban Sojourn is about attuning to and experiencing
the surrounding local environment. It combines image and
form, reflecting the way an understanding of place is built
up from fragments of spatial and visual information. An
understanding of this space develops and is assembled
over time as suburbia changes, as the familiar is replaced,
and memory mixes with new.
The many parts that make up suburban place coexist,
as private space adjoins shared public space and
boundaries divide the landscape. Differences in
architecture represent personal taste and record eras of
building style. Nature contributes to this fragmentation
with cultivated gardens contrasting untamed verges and
native plants competing with the exotic.
Suburban Sojourn is part of a larger series of formpaintings
that explore the multimodal experience of the
suburban built-environment through movement, seeing
and feeling in realist representation. The varied scales
and forms hope to tune into the space of the suburbs
by pushing and pulling the viewer’s attention into the
varied surface.
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