Claudia Middendorf

My work is about the natural and supernatural, the manifest and imaginable—combining subtle effects on the surface plane with windows into other worlds. This combination emerges from the “domesticana” aesthetic of the Latin American vernacular. The surface shifts are an investigation of the limitations of time. Layers are flattened and represented in one dimension, suspended from traveling further. The phenomenon of the abstracted doily—holes in patterned paper—represents the windows, opportunities for change in the fabric of time and space. The physical universe invites us to consider time, space and the ephemeral nature of the human condition. I am a spectator taking the time to look into small places and large worlds.