Chris Ellis

Ambiguous nature of space: capturing space

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The indistinct shapeless form occupies the unseen space. It's form take on two aspects of spaces. One the imaginative open state with its unattainable free­flowing invisible nature. The second is the development of space in which a material is introduced and like a seed it forms its shape with the nutrients of space ­ giving energy and the fundamental building block of sculpture.

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The ambiguous forms are constructed upside down. A geometric structured surface is made and the material is piled on top. After the material has hardened or set it is released from the geometrical surface reviewing it's negative form. Its then turned right side up and the material transforms from how gravity flows to the movement and development of space in which it flows in. So it no longer has a downward movement or heaviness.

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Is space captured in a solid material of the ambiguous forms or is space reformed in the positive geometric areas?

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The geometric flat­plains are the negative forms of a type of unrealized foundation or structure. This is where "it" is supposed to happen, the understanding, or the taking off point. (entry point).

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These ambiguous forms are elevated up with a chaotic Crystaline like structure that occupies two thirds of the mass of the ambiguous forms form. Space and the material are always next to each other but within these flat­plains they seem closer, denser with one another.