Space
in Southern California is often experienced as a series of disconnected fragments
as one drives between a network of destinations. The proposed piece will reconstruct
some of these fragments into a new whole. Using banal visual landmarks from
a daily commute, this work is a psycho-geographical microcosm of a part of Los
Angeles in the form of a floor-mounted pathway. Only the edges of the elements
are recorded in the piece - which is both map and road - transforming what is
an inherently fragmented visual experience into one that is continuous and haptic.
The work will be installed on the floor of the gallery and will be constructed
with approximately 30 laser-cut pieces of vinyl or rubber, taking up a total
of approximately 30' x 40'. Visitors can walk directly on the pathway, which
could also flow underneath other objects in the gallery.
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Tim
Durfee is an architectural designer who works collaboratively and independantly
on projects ranging from architecture to exhibition design to product and web
design to video. He is a partner in the practices Durfee/Regn and Durfee Regn
Sandhaus. Tim teaches graduate design at The Southern California Institute of
Architecture (SCI-Arc) where he is the director of the Soft Technology/Visual
Studies program. He received a Masters Degree in architecture from Yale.