Imagined Boundaries

My current installation sculpture is appropriately titled Imagined Boundaries. Space can be defined as boundless, a place where objects and events occur, in which they have position and direction. In my own explorations, I wanted to study upon the idea of personal space which can be defined within two categories: immediate individual physical space and the space in which an individual considers they live in, often called habitat. Immediate individual physical space can be described with a certain individual standing central to rings of imagined boundaries that they have defined as their personal space. These imagined boundaries determine how close or how far an individual may stand in comparison to another physical being. As mentioned previously, personal space can also be defined as a habitat. The sculpture's shape was carefully considered, created as a dome-like structure. The construction of the dome-like shape was heavily influenced on my study of adobe architecture. Imagined Boundaries was created in order to bring a better understanding of the idea of personal space defined within my own life.