Untitled

2010

toughened glass, white cube
2.4mH x 1.2mW x 1.2mD

Series: Glazed I’s, Subject-Object

In Untitled (2010), a clear glass I-figure rises above and dissects a compressed white cube. Both constraint and support, the conceptual square locks the text-form into the language of abstraction. The work has no privileged front or back. As viewers move, the I-form reads as a full figure, thins to a fibre, or dissolves into air.  In pure profile, Untitled's text is a fine-line in space – another presence, an Other I.

Within the glass, the viewer becomes 'I'. An internal voice is activated: seeing and reading the numeral ‘1/First' and the first-person ‘I’ in the present tense. With shifts of light and movement, the glass performs as mirror and lens – reflective and transparent at once. This oscillation complicates self-image: the viewer sees through the I/One frame as they see themselves reflected in it. Here, the audience is more than doubled – threaded through, and intermittently erased – activating “I” as a pronoun of agency rather than a possession.

The title is deliberate. Untitled refuses narrative closure; it is a contingent event, appearing, withdrawing, and re-forming with each change of angle, distance, and light. Agency remains in play as the audience becomes subject and object, as “I” shifts from identity into an act of seeing.