Expanded Cosmic Ocular is a wall-based work that holds itself in the narrow zone between image and relief. The piece stays close to the wall, yet it does not settle into flatness. Its form presses forward, recedes again, and produces a shifting read between surface, projection and contour. What matters here is not illusion, but the exact organisation of visual tension on and against the wall.
Expanded Cosmic Ocular is built through concentration. It gathers force through its limits, through the placement of its mass, and through the relation between edge and surrounding surface. The wall is part of the work’s structure. It acts as ground, counter-pressure and field of extension. Because of this, the piece changes with distance. From nearby, the surface reads more physically. From farther away, the work condenses into a more compact image body.
Expanded Cosmic Ocular and wall-based form
Expanded Cosmic Ocular develops through a graphic logic that has moved into space. The work is read frontally, yet it never remains purely frontal. Shadow, thickness, contour and spacing keep the image unstable. This instability is quiet and precise. It does not rely on movement in a theatrical sense. It comes from small shifts in viewpoint and from the way the work holds its outline against the wall.
The title points toward expansion, and that expansion happens through perception rather than through scale. The piece opens through its edges, through the pressure of its form, and through the tension between concentration and spread. What appears contained begins to radiate outward into the surrounding wall zone. In this way, Expanded Cosmic Ocular works with a measured spatial pull.
Within the larger practice, the piece is closely tied to wall-based thinking, relief logic and the translation of graphic structure into physical form. It carries the reduced language of your work clearly: a focus on interval, density, restraint and the material presence of a shaped surface. Expanded Cosmic Ocular is therefore less a picture than a held visual body, fixed to the wall and still slightly in motion.
Medium
bioplastic, cardboard, ceramic, wool, wire, tulle
Dimensions
435 × 365 cm
Exhibited at
Villa van Delden, Ahaus, Germany — exhibition Un-/Tiefen (Un-/Depths), 22 June – 20 July 2025
