Lee Boroson
	contrails and clusters 2 january – 9 february, 2004   dew point, (detail)               We exist in an evolving choreography with the spaces we inhabit. When does architecture help in freeing us from limitations and when do we acquiesce to a predetermined set of restrictions? When does the function or activity define a space as complete? How far can we flex the implicit rules of an architecture? Departing from my inflatable interior works and environments, I continue to search for ways to illuminate our fluid relationship with our surroundings. What are the forces that act on a body and how do we read the invisible? In my recent installations of clouds, constructed of thousands of hollow glass spheres, the forms that are shaped by atmospheric and meteorological conditions crystallize, as time has slows down, and bodies remain on the cusp of dematerialization. By isolating individual guidelines of perception, I examine how we define an object and how through the object we can understand its original context. To what extent can a presence exist without the space around it? How can we begin to talk about clouds; massive, ethereal, amoebas that float around us in flux? They are mysterious, mystical and mundane. Nature makes manifest these forces and conditions that would otherwise remain invisible. In the star project, I have taken images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (a photographic map of the universe) and removed all of the "space," leaving the objects to float in a true void. Then, I've allowed the bodies (stars, galaxies, asteroids, etc.) to re-cluster in the middle of each image. We rely on the stability of principles that govern in our perception of reality. When this notion (of stability) deteriorates, we become aware of opportunities to make strange the familiar, and reveal our world as the ephemeral snarl of competing conditions that it is. These works are based in my study of the space in-between, not just in-between the walls that define a room, but the space in-between actions, and individuals and events. This space is the agar in which our lives take shape. I'm interested in the non-event, the non-thing, from boundary to boundary. —Lee Boroson, 2004
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