MARFA
LINE
Scope: Installation
Type: Installation
Size: n/a
Location: Marfa, Texas
In a former stable building on a once active military base turned museum, a series of subtle interventions re-negotiate the relationship between architecture, landscape and the perceptually changing conditions of light and sky. Inside, a triadic set of cast plaster tiles positioned along the central axis of the structure between blasted out walls establishes both a visual axis and a second order narrative. On the stable’s exterior, the pair of reflective surfaces positioned on its rusting, corrugated iron roof register a two-dimensional surface transformation as changing conditions of light in the sky are momentarily recorded.
The stable building, unconsciously left to entropic processes, functions as little more than a subtle interruption to the sun and wind tracking over the gassy high plain. Yet, upon closer view, the structure has become a phenomenological measure of these movements. Diffused into the surrounding landscape, architecture is conceived here as a condition which anticipates both its own interiority and its eventual dismantling.
Axonometric diagram illustrating stable building components and ‘tile’ interventions