Space Text Reading

Skip Schukman
I really enjoy the idea of going into one of Schukman's created spaces. There is something about using what is present and then knowing that it will have natural life of decay that rings very true to me. It brings thoughts of Buddhists sand paintings as well as walk through an old growth forest to mind. Since personal interaction is very valuable to me, the idea of working with a client on a day-by-day, at will basis is incredibly attractive to me. It is like he encourages the client to become a child and see what is around them everyday and what it could mean.

Victoria Vesna
While I understand that Vesna's subject matter is time and the digital age and that that in some ways makes her choice of media very appropriate, I struggle with both the portrayal of her works in the texts as well as some of her concepts. It seems that there is a natural inconsistency in trying to create space with no time with the fact that if you capture a static image, it will always be of that moment and time, or if you have something that is occurring, due to the limits of our existance and perception, we will always see and perceive it in a linear time, having beginning, middle, and end.

Mariko Mori
I was incredibly fascinated by Mori's "Dream Temple." The interactive and yet peaceful space is one that I would love to see in person. I think that her utopian concepts are a little lost on me in some of the other works with the alien-like creatures that pop up in random places.