robert_platt: painting/installation/object/experimental film

Prosfuge : 
​hide & seek and other latent interfaces with the environment

expanded painting
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​My creative work investigates what the role of contemporary landscape, human perception, surface and materiality articulates in the age of increasing virtuality. Drawing from research in a range of disciplines including landscape theory, media archeology, speleology, optics and Japanese studies, I create complex spaces where the materiality of surfaces and the materiality of the world interconnect and achieve a coextensive and interdependent relationship. The convergence of painting, installation, moving image and architectural installation enables me to create composite and divergent experiences and understandings of differential materiality in our perception and interface with environment.

“Merleau-Ponty’s sense of sight is an embodied vision that is an incarnate of the ‘Flesh of The World’. The artist touches the skin of his world with the same wonder as a child scratches the surface of a frosted window.”
-Juhani Pallasmaa-

concealed presence

Becoming....doing away with identity is the process of continuous self-determination: the dynamic of constantly shifting and adapting one's form, moving towards nowhere from within itself. Hooray! for non-substantiality and ontological indeterminacy.