AERIAL GAZE: FOUND RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN LAKE & LAGOON

Project Description
Aerial Gaze is an ongoing series of sociological studies of personal space and social groupings. The Aerial Gaze prints are monotypes, one-of-a-kind prints created using drawing, painting, and printing.

Artist Statement
Watching people from above is somewhat like watching clouds. Observers can imagine who and what they see in moving forms. An aerial perspective offers a curious dichotomy: the proximity to witness people intimately and the distance to envision them as anonymous patterns, brief formations in continual motion. Watching the street shows me tenderness, indifference, speed, stillness, and the language formed from pauses and overlaps.

For five and a half years I worked sitting next to a 15' x 20' second-story window overlooking a busy intersection. The aerial perspective in my ensuing series of monotypes lends both a sense of surveillance and a sense of poetry to peoples' movement, a strange urban choreography illustrating patterns of alienation, hope, and intimacy.

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Aerial Gaze: Lake and Lagoon
Aerial Gaze: Waiting