The Interspace

My explorations of the qualities that constitute our individuality began in 2018. In exploring this subject, I have evoked a narrative of the Interspace: the mediated self. Our selfhood resides between the two sovereign constructs of the exterior, physical world, and our interior state made up of hormones, neurotransmitters, and autonomic responses. The project’s intent is to visualize the manner in which we process input from these two constructs. The constructs are immutable: we cannot, for example, redefine, change, or fundamentally control the events and forces of the exterior world – gravity, ecosystems, society – nor can we redefine, change, or fundamentally control our internal innate predispositions. We cannot prevent or deflect these concurrent forces from influencing us. We can, however, manage them. The management of these exterior and interior forces is done in the Interspace - where we lay claim to our hand in our identity. Between the constructs and the Interspace are membranes which receive incoming signals. If the signal arrives from the exterior world, the initial assessment is conducted by our traditional senses as it passes through the membrane: sight, taste, touch, and the like. However, if the signal is coming from the interior world, our emotions perform this initial processing before passing it on to the Interspace. The membrane’s interpretation changes the signal into a parcel to be delivered to the Interspace. The Interspace examines, reshapes, a