A space in-between: practicing surface

A Space In-Between: Practicing Surface investigates practice and making as an ongoing spatial process of becoming.

Inspired by the physical, intangible and esoteric qualities of surface sensibilities, I am intrigued with the notion of surface as a concealing utility, in continuous transformation and the potential for what may be revealed through the dynamic processes of making, how a concept emerges, how it becomes materialised, unstable and evolves in the beholders’ eye. The tactile activity that brings it into being, transforms it, undoing identities, and creating potential spaces in between or openings in which interspatial discourse and contemplation transpire.

This research is concerned with the making of objects that seek to challenge static design processes, disconnected from the process of making, by questioning the materiality and the act of making, rather than the objects made and their intended outcomes. I am interested in the emphasis placed on the moment with a need to re-present that moment suspended in either a state of dispersal or reconstruction, its silence as a still frozen moment, but its impermanence continuously in a state of flux.

Through the development of four projects, this research project ‘A Space In-Between: Practicing Surface’ examines the relationship between making surfaces and objects, presenting a ground for a practice of making, whereby in the process of making the designer may hesitate or pause, actively interrupting an expected outcome, offering up an openness in which further complexities transform and become.