Artist Statement
My work examines the appearance of optical effects which occur when closely spaced parallel lines are layered on separate planes. The combination of these layers results in the creation of moiré, movement, and the illusion of form. When activated from various viewpoints, these visual phenomena challenge and distort perception of space, structure, and surface. The image shifting from multiple perspectives invites movement and interaction from the viewer.
The parallel lines are hand drawn through a simple, meditative practice in which I seek to convey the collection of repetitive actions, behaviours and events that accumulate in a lifetime to create the structure of an individual’s identity. Within this context I also reference the cycles, rhythms and patterns of life and nature, and am interested in the way we are all uniquely affected and influenced in both visible and non-visible ways by these events.
My work also explores the polarities of interior and the exterior, the personal and the collective, the present and the absent, the solid and the void. In my work I utilise the unique material quality of glass and its embodiment of these dual forces, being simultaneously solid and invisible, its transparency allowing the layering of multiple drawings.
Erin Conron
April 2024