Jon DeCola

The "triple point" of a substance is achieved when a perfect combination of pressure and temperature creates a thermodynamic equilibrium allowing the substance to exist as a gas, a solid and a liquid simultaneously; the slightest change to any of the variables will cause this delicate coexistence to collapse, fixing the substance into a single state.

This concept can be seen as an analogue for human perception, enmeshed within the world of objects, all existing in this nameless, flexible state until a collapse into a single meaning is activated by the viewer; a slight change of context or shift of position within that context, the sensations and histories we bring to bear, all effecting drastic transformation upon what once seemed self-evident and straight­ forward. The pieces presented here operate within and upon this transient space, both physically and conceptually; there is no definitive static image to be presented, there is no ideal perspective- we are confronted by the veil of our intuitive phenomenologies, we witness the medium refuse the message and we see that the elusive figure is parallax itself.

An examination utilizing materials and modes of authority, economy and dominance to destabilize and reprioritize both the image and the object, Triple Point is a meditation on this world of flux and ultimately the power, and powerlessness, of our perspectives.

- D. Scales, Curator