Christopher L. Mercier

 

 On his project: 

“Color {Space} Form” is a creative exploration into the depiction of pictorial, sculptural and architectural space.  At its heart, it posits, through an act of making, a vision of contemporary space. Within Western thought there is a long tradition of spatial development & exploration.  From the early middle ages, through the Renaissance and up to the modern time, each era’s depiction/construction of space becomes a world or window into how experience is perceived. In today’s global world, collapsed time, virtual reality, reality T.V. and the internet all weave a “new immediacy” where these developments act as cues in the shaping of contemporary space.  My investigations into pictorial, cultural and physical space collectively seek an understanding of the effects, opportunities, and outcomes these and other cues have on contemporary spatial expression and its development.