Continuous Structures is an immersive video installation integrating digital animation and a room-sized architectural construction. The project is conceptually rooted in the idea of phenomenal transparency, a term used to describe the simultaneous perception of two objects in visual space, in which one object is behind the other. As phenomenal transparency is constructed by a mental fabrication of two surfaces whereby the implied layers of a composition appear to have oscillating depth, it acts as an optical ‘event’. Using the a line drawing of a parallelogram as a basis for the projection, the installation explores how a single building block can be added and subtracted to create endless patterns which form and dissolve into infinite landscapes. Walking through the various elements of the piece, the viewer is able to access different perceptual aspects of this abstract landscape, allowing one to ‘enter’ the drawing in both a visual and embodied manner.

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