When i first made this work, i fucked it up. not really fucked it up per-say, but i didn’t do the thing that i wanted. i spent a lot of the time fighting the space, and the earlier light installation was a way of finding spatial harmony. up to this point i had never created art in a non-gallery space, and the concept of ‘spatial integration’ was almost easy…. a white cube becomes what you want. my work explores for the most part space and spatial interaction of spaces that i create. when you work in a space that isn’t your own, that comes with it’s own context and inherent complications, sometimes you can hit a wall; which i did. my first installation was nice but it was simply the beginning of something. i had all of these grand ideas about creating autonomous spatial interactive pieces, but it’s hard if you can’t actually go into them. the best thing about this installation is that i had to work with constrictions and i couldn’t bend them, i had to use them and push my ideas against them.
This piece ‘never gonna take you for granted again’ is both a homage to mondrian in terms of colour and bulb placement, and a love letter to the space. light brings forth the hidden, exposing it: forcing it to be seen in a new way. it also created spaces within the larger space. it alters and changes the context…what was once simply a disused office space is now a sexy environment…to close with a luscious jackson quote: ‘it feels all right’.