Joshua Suklan

COFA Annual 2010

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At A Glance

Job Title	Student
Industry	Visual Arts
Profession	Visual Artist
Expertise	Visual Arts, Art Therapy, Ceramics, Craft, Drawing, Glass Design, Graffiti, Indigenous Art, Other, Painting, Printmaking, Public Art, Sculpture, Wood Design, Stencil Art, Fine Art, Multi-Media Artist, Social & Environment, Digital Artist, Live Projections, Screen Printing
Level	Junior

Availability	Looking for Work
Location	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Residency / Visa	Australia / New Zealand

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Cofa Annual 2010

Visual Arts, Other

Site Installation. Five Perspex works. Pouring and Rotor works. Accompanied by sound.

Proposal.

“Spatial Perception, Spatial Deception.”

“Geometry is a science which determines the properties of space synthetically and yet interactive with prior knowledge. What then, must be a representation of space, in order that such knowledge of it may be possible?” - Immanuel Kant.

My previous research was to explore the use of colour (colour interaction and colour combination) and how it can provoke physical and psychological responses to the human body and mind (the viewer) with the investigation of colour theory and psychological literature. Through this research I have found a greater meaning in space. My current aim is similar, but with a greater emphasis on space and how colour can facilitate the perception of distance. Looking at theoretical concepts of the perception of distance including; accommodation, convergence, apparent size, intermediate objects or imagined intervals using “atmospheric perspective” (due to the effect of the intervening atmosphere, the colours of distant objects are softened, and may take on a bluish cast)

To facilitate this concept I would like to use techniques that were mildly explored in the previous session which entailed pouring pigments onto perspex and rotoring into perspex. I would like to experiment more with the chemistry of the pouring technique and combining it with the rotor work. The content for this work will include non-objective geometric forms of colour and colourless rotor drawings. These forms and drawings will engage with the transparency of the perspex by the way that light penetrates the surface. Evidently with using a transparent surface like perspex, this will also continue my previous experimentation with light, only this time it will be in relation to colour and space and the way light may enhance or disrupt a response from the viewer.

The intended forms will be drawn onto the perspex with the intent of playing with perspective and perception of space. Then specific shapes created by the intersecting lines will be poured and the lines rotored.

This installation will cover a series of works - objects, drawings, uniform pouring - enhanced by sound to interact with the space and the viewer.