This sculptural work was created at the beginning of 2014 out of an ambitious interest in exploring the possibilities that certain materials offer when it is intended to generate optical illusions and from that, to create immersive, enveloping and hypothetically transitable spaces. These spaces are conceived to exist as large-scale sculptures that directly affect the viewer's spatial perception and the conception of the environment in which they find themselves and indirectly provoke emotional and sensory reactions.<\/p>\n
Therefore, I began mixing materials such as melted glass, cut glass, mirrors, water, lights, litmus cardboard and some gels and fluorescent pigments to find results that would give me the basis to build the models that represented these hypothetical spaces in a small scale and that these models, at the same time, would be recognized as finished pieces. These models, would show these optical games generated by the way in which the dispersion and abstraction of the lights are generated when confronted with the glass, while intertwined with the representation of figures and silhouettes somewhat concrete along with the synthesis of the colors and shapes of the environment reflected on its mirror and glass surfaces.<\/p>\n
The outcome of this experimentation are Islands and Layers<\/strong>, two scaled proposals constituted from a double function: as a finite work and as projections of larger scale possibilities.<\/p>\n