Iris Sanchez
Houston, TX
Artist's Statement:
In my current series I am trying to create a visual tension within the work by incorporating two-dimensional and three-dimensional images using various techniques. I am addressing several issues within the series including creating designs that go beyond the physical page, making artwork that does not necessarily have a predominate focal point and multiple two-dimensional, three-dimensional layers within the work.
The new works that I have been working on are a play on the viewer. I am trying to create images that upon first viewing are subtly visual disrupting. They combine two-dimensional and three-dimensional images creating a contrast that fights the eye. Upon first viewing most audiences try to create one predominate image, but the reality of the photograph is that the images are both predominate and thus fight one another for attention. Without realizing it the viewer is sucked into a realm of monochromatic war. And then the questions arise. Is it an object? Is it an abstract object? Is it a photograph? Is it a sculpture? Why is it gray? Why is it upside down and sideways? There tends to always be a desire for the viewer to create a context for an image and this interests me. In some of the pieces there are obvious objects in other pieces there are not, yet I am hoping the viewer steps back and wonders, even if just for a moment.
