Julie Rafalski
The Cut
Gordon Matta-Clark, Conical Intersect, 1975
The cut into a surface.
The superimposition of two different spaces or times.
The excavation of a space to reveal an earlier version of the space.
The revelation of something that is located behind the foreground.
A stage set with a hole in it.
The ability to see 2 or more spaces at once.
A window or door, revealing an outer or inner world.
Olafur Eliasson, Your Sun Machine, 1997
The definition of a container- a container exists because we can look from inside to the outside.
The revelation of what's underneath or above.
The scratching away of the layers of paint on a wall.
The fracture in a smooth surface.
The ripping of posters on an advertising board to reveal others underneath.
A cutting away of one surface always reveals another, in an endless continuum of various surfaces and objects- endless only until it goes full circle and you end up where you started.