Eames works reflect on anthropocentric factors - our culpability for environmental imbalance. Visual interventions through colour, placement, scale, light and timing forge a re-choreographed world wherein the viewer can experience moments of both lucidity and confusion. What exactly is happening here? Eames focus is on membrane, particularly membrane as mediator between two viewing aspects; in front of and behind, revealed and hidden, seen and unseen, known and unknown. They exist in a time-frame but play forever. They are drawings which exist in the present continuous, drawings which may be viewed in entirety or not… These works propose that we come to realise and perhaps retrieve something unknown as opposed to relying on conditioning, opinion, taste or habit.
PALINDROME is part of her CONTOUR series, 2024. (MP4, 2’.59”, 4K, 3840p x 2160p) A silent infinivid work, wherein five shape-shifting objects move and slide past, turning through space and time, in continuum. Palindrome is an ambigram, a visual palindrome that relies on some kind of symmetry and can often be interpreted as a visual pun. So, what can be seen? Vessels scribed in vibrant red - symmetry but not, strangely familiar, but not…