Folding In

Hydranx 2 (24 x 24 x 1.5")

Hydranx 2 (shown at different angle)

Hydranx 3.1 (30 x 30 x 1.5")

Hydranx 3.1 (indirect light)

Polytope Reversal 1 (30 x 30 x 1.5")

Polytope Reversal 1 (shown at different angle and illumination)

Polytope Reversal 2 (30 x 30 x 1.5")

Polytope Reversal 2 (shown at different angles and illumination)

Tope-in-a-Tope (24 x 24 x 1.5")

Tope-in-a-Tope (different angle)

Mutable Invasion 1 (24 x 24 x 1.5")

Mutable Invasion 1 (shown at different angles and illumination)

Mutable Invasion 2 (24 x 24") - SOLD

Mutable Invasion 2 (shown in direct sunlight)

Mutable Invasion 2 (different angle)

Polytope Reversal 3 (shown at different angles and illumination)

Fractured (24 x 24 x 1.5")

Rumination (24 x 24 x 1.5")

Rumination (edge detail)

Polytope Reversal 4 (30 x 30 x 1.5")

Polytope Reversal 4 (at different angles and illumination)

my swirling emotions (8 x 8 x 1.5") - SOLD

my swirling emotions (shown at different angles and illumination)

Laid Bare (24 x 24 x 1.5") - SOLD

Laid Bare (detail)

What You Don't See (24 x 24 x 1.5")

What You Don't See (different angles & edge detail)

Meditation (24 x 24" x1.5") - SOLD

Meditation (edge detail)

Illumination (24 x 24 x 1.5")

Recapitulation (24 x 24 x 1.5")

Looking Towards the Past (8 x 8 x 1.5")

Looking Towards the Past (different angles and illumination)

“Folding In” reflects our world stuck in an extended isolation, which has caused most people to not only search inward (the positive aspect of reevaluating our goals in life) but also to shrink inward (the negative of losing connections within our communities). We have a generation of children mostly educated and entertained remotely through their computer and phone screens; a world of fraying physical, emotional and socio-political relationships, either destroyed or irreversibly blunted; and the untenable loss of friends and loved ones to several years of an ever-changing virus. Thus, it’s not surprising that these forms of isolation and loss have driven people worldwide into this deep self-reflection of priorities and values as well as into utter despair. My artwork has begun to reflect my own quiet, internal moments (good and bad), as well as continuing to occasionally reference what’s going on in the outside world (e.g. “Mutable Invasion 1 & 2”).

At the beginning of this series, I spent many months removed from all social media while I sorted through not only some technical issues but some abstract concepts as well. Thus, “Folding In” is a personal reference to my own deep introspection. Another form of “folding in” is my creating links from my older work to these new works (seen and explained on many of my Instagram posts as well as on this website’s section titled “What Was She Thinking??”, which can be found under the “ABOUT” header). A more general example of these references are seen in the large geometric shapes that are blown-up versions of the geometric "stamps" seen on the works in the series “Through the Looking Glass”.

The abstract concept of “folding” (often based in math) is also something that I’ve incorporated into my work since the 2nd generation of the cubes I created 20-30 yrs ago (seen in the series “Hard Sensualism” and “Whispered Stories”), so that some of the nods to my older work are specifically about re-addressing the physical concept of folding and what it implies for the representation of additional dimensions in space and time.

Finally, I hope that these long-range connections can serve as a metaphor for rebuilding some of the connections we've lost to quarantine, covid, politics, and war.

CEL 2022

carole landisman

Folding In