A Room
Final Project

A Room

Final Project

 

 

The viewer enters a dilapidated room—dust clings to the air, fluorescent light flickers and the walls and ceiling tiles bear the marks of time and neglect. It’s a forgotten space, empty, dilapidated and decaying. In the room, there is one missing ceiling tile and a ladder placed just under the missing tile.

 

Above, through this small rupture, the viewer’s eyes are drawn to something unexpected: on a single wooden beam in the exposed infrastructure—amid wires, dust, and insulation—the hand of Adam reaching out, just about to touch the hand of God. This moment depicted in Michelangelo’s painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel is projected onto a beam among the rafters.

 

The artist juxtaposes this intersection between humankind and the divine with the stark, decaying space above the ceiling, the hidden, structural and mechanical guts of a dilapidated room, the sight of the mundane. Amid the wooden beams, tangled wires, thick insulation, and accumulated dust in the normally unseen is the divine moment. The ladder suggests that the viewer always has a choice to ascend or even exist within the space of the intersection of man and God. 

 

The room explores the idea that the divine and its connection to humankind-spiritual, human, or existential- can be found not in the idealized rooms of religious spaces but in the overlooked and foundational space of daily life. Ultimately, the installation is posing the question: What if divinity can be found in the moment that humankind touches the divine and this can be found within the very mundane bones of the moments and spaces we live in and often let decay?

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