Untitled (circle-graph)

variable dimensions
concrete, polyester coating

Brightly coloured cement blocks in the shape of architectural blueprints of doors obstruct all passages throughout the ground floor of a building. Draft board intentions for accessibility become obstacles.

In the work, untitled (circle graph), a multi-pieced composition is created by utilizing a series of doorways, hallway and stairs. A series of thick, low concrete blocks are distributed evenly in front of six opposing doorways throughout a ground floor hallway. Each block is different to the other, having its own colour and degree of radius. They vary in colour from light pink to purple and from minimal degrees to a full ninety. The individual blocks serve as well as an obtrusively phantasmal reference to an architectural blueprint indicating a door.

The second stage of the piece unfolds upon the stairway landing between the groung floor and the basement. Here the viewer finds the small landing obstructed by a second series of blocks which are stacked on top of one another, forming a fanned out secondary set of steps. Aside from an alteration of certain edges, these blocks are an identical replica of those in the first floor hall in colour and shape. Their situation within the already limited dimensions of the landing leaves the viewer with very little space in which to pass. As with the blocks in the hall, one must either step upon or over them in order to enter another space.