The following installation was developed for Jessica Jane Julius’ solo exhibition “What are you afraid of?” presented at Marketview Arts, York, PA It was shown with an installation of Static and her Saliva Print series.

Between Now and Now was installed in an 2000 foot gallery space. Blacking out the space, the viewer must walk through darkness to come upon the work.

This work was made possible by the generous grant from the Cultural Alliance of York PA and York College.

Static

A dream is the experience of envisioned images, sounds, or other sensations during sleep. Sigmund Freud theorized that dreams are a reflection of human desires and promoted by external stimuli such as our environments. Joe Griffin states "dreams are metaphorical translations of waking expectations. Expectations that cause emotional arousal that is not acted upon during the day." "Static" was an attempt at transforming emotion into form. The inspiration for the work comes from a reoccurring dream. Within the dream, an infinite three-dimensional black line fills my vision and releases a low pitch constant hum. I am without body or form just aware of feeling. The line becomes tense and starts to vibrate like a heart beat monitor. The intensity builds until I wake up perspiring.

In between Now and Now, Julius will transform the gallery with her large-scale installation created primarily from millions of tiny glass reflector spheres, traditionally manufactured for use in highway markings. These spheres shine brightly when exposed to light in an otherwise dark environment, creating a luminous effect. Julius’s installation visualizes the notion of complex systems and networks that exist in the world around us. Assembled from a large number of smaller parts, these systems represent the organization achieved in the face of our never-ending drive towards disorganization and chaos. These tangled, reticular structures create an impenetrable dreamscape scenario invoking the passing of time or the erosion of memory. This is the space where we pause and listen.

Between Coming and Going

Installation, 30ft x 36in x 24in, 2021, Flameworked and Cast Glass, Grown Crystal, Gold Leaf enamel

Exhibited at Traver Gallery, Seattle, Between the Edge of Reflection

The work "Hybrid" consists of opaque black glass fingers and a data system of rub-on-letters. Through isolating a part of the body, it becomes a foreign object however recognizable. The finger focuses on the action of touching, pointing, and defining information and represents our tactile experience. The small objects have characteristics of actual fingers through, realistic size, fingerprints, and quality of skin. They are placed on the wall in a way where they are pointing or containing parts of the data, representing an act of touch and inquiry in the same way we learn about the world through touch. Through the interface of the objects with the numbers, letters, and symbols the work talks about how we categorize, focus, and analyze with the use of technology, data, and systems. The impermanency of the work stresses the changing of information through time and how our systems change with new information and new discoveries.

2006

"Betty"

Flameworked Glass, 8ft x 8ft, 2011

A dream is the experience of envisioned images, sounds, or other sensations during sleep. Sigmund Freud theorized that dreams are a reflection of human desires and promoted by external stimuli such as our environments. Joe Griffin states "dreams are metaphorical translations of waking expectations. Expectations that cause emotional arousal that is not acted upon during the day."

"Static" is an attempt at transforming emotion into form. The inspiration for the work comes from a reoccurring dream. Within the dream, an infinite three-dimensional black line fills my vision and releases a low pitch constant hum. I am without body or form just aware of feeling. The line becomes tense and starts to vibrate like a heart beat monitor. The intensity builds until I wake up perspiring.

This was the first version of "Static" installed at The Visual Studies Workshop in NY.

Flameworked Black Bullseye Glass, 2006