CRACKS IN THE FLOOR

Over the past few years my conscious visual attention has been increasingly drawn to instances of linear perspective within relatively ordinary spaces and in the outdoors, starting from my feet, from my eyes, from in between, and continuing past the perceived edges of fields of vision. Geometrical constructions that can be perceived on the ground, along walls and ceilings, in machinery, in fields and forests. So apparent and attractive have these innumerable lines become to me, that I cannot look at any space, or at any person, animal, plant or object within it, without rapidly finding an overall framework of lines holding everything together. In this book we offer a selection of these spaces, a personal cross-section of this observed geometry, of the invisible order of an imagined “ship-shape” world.

…Lightning
rips
azure
afternoons
rainbows
any hour
refractions
unexplained
seek
detailed
clarification
tabulation
measurement
clearer
records
verified
facts
truer
perceptions
knowledge
redefined
edifying
uncertainty
extends
fissures
speaks
time
limits
hours
we
straddle
drain
fight
sinking
losing…

V.M.