Expanding Perspectives

Expanding Perspectives is an ongoing body of work that asks how a system behaves once imperfection is built into its foundation, not simply tolerated inside it. In Imperfections Alignées, irregularity was something I accepted. Here, it becomes structural: a working part of the system itself, not an exception to it.

One question keeps returning after that earlier body of work: does this language survive once it leaves the flat surface? After twenty years spent building closed, precise systems in graphic design, where every line could be corrected, I want to know what happens when a line that can't be corrected meets perception, volume, light, architecture. Three series test that question at three different scales.

Threshold is the most classical series in the corpus: across its compositions, dark masses meet zones of fine hand drawn line, and each piece carries a rupture of color that lets light into an otherwise closed structure. Expanding Horizon leaves the wall for the room: painted wood elements installed in rhythm, their shadows folding into the composition, a boundary between piece and space that shifts with where the viewer stands. Asymmetric Disruption is the most experimental of the three, still worked in studies: in Study I, color vibrates against vertical form until the structure visibly moves; in Study II, unstretched canvases with irregular edges interlock without ever aligning, loose enough to move with the air in the room.

Ecological awareness runs through the whole practice, present from the paper and Indian ink of the earliest work onward. Here, it extends into new mediums: bio sourced acrylics, recycled PET canvas, and local wood, each one another rule the system has to negotiate as it takes on new materials.

In Asymmetric Disruption, colour and structure assert themselves before they can be read. In Expanding Horizon, the work keeps changing as the viewer's position changes, and never settles into one reading. Threshold is the one place the system holds still. Nothing in the corpus resolves from a single vantage point: the viewer has to move to find out what holds and what doesn't, the same test the whole body of work runs on itself.

Expanding Perspectives, Phase 1, the corpus's first exhibition, at Mosaic Room, Vevey (CH), March to June 2025, confirmed its capacity to leave the plane and turn a whole room into a system. The corpus is still in development: Asymmetric Disruption found its first forms in 2026, and continues from there. A second phase, bringing the three series together as one system for the first time, is in preparation.