After Dan Flavin: Marfa was made from filaments dipped in latex and powdered pigment, hung in clusters of intensely saturated color to form new spaces. Intriguing for their ephemeral quality and visual ambiguity, these pieces are physically dependent upon and perceptually modify the existing architecture. These color-saturated spaces, seductive and inviting, beckon the viewer to enter, however in some cases it is not physically possible to do so.  From one vantage point, the colors make up a particular shape and from another the field becomes an abstract mass of colorful lines. When the viewer is close to or inside the piece, the questions of focus and perception come into play.  At very close range, depth perception breaks down and the optical experience becomes one of disorientation and denial of associative or symbolic value for the sake of pure sensual indulgence.

© Barbara Campisi 2009