"Coded Zones", Paintings and Installation, 1989

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This work came out of a drawing class with Tim Whiten as well as my painting seminar with Eugene Telez while I was in my last year at York University. I had been working on a series of drawings and acrylic paintings that were really extreme abstractions of perspective in a room. The 'perspective' had to do with memory and how skewed things can get in one's mind. While looking at one of the paintings one day I stepped way back and suddenly saw this piece as a floor plan for an installation. At times I used to see this as a bizarre face akin to pumpkin carving. But, on this particular day I realized that the windows were like walls in a room from an aerial perspective - the 2 rooms being separated by one long wall.

I decided I needed to build this thing. I was fortunate enough to use the Samuel Beckett Theatre - which further afforded an opportunity to do some work with audio and atmospheric lighting. The paintings were hung next door at the Samuel J. Zacks Gallery.