BLAKE SENINI - Artist Statement

Light and its characteristics and relationships to form have been of particular interest to my studio practice and research over the past decade. Through research, production and creation of works and installations , I was exploring the interaction of light with particular architectural forms. The forms I preferred were derived from elements of architecture that emitted light, such structures as windows, hallways, entrances and the negative spaces between structures that enclosed light were of particular interest to me. The surfaces achieved in these works was utilized as both form and content; I felt the light and shadows cast by these works and by the materials used , mimicked the same types of light in the architecture of churches, cathedrals, temples, synagogues and various places of worship I was studying

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Over the past three years my practice has been concerned with the nature of film and it's reliance on repetition and light to create movement and narrative .The installation , ` A Foreign Film` , (Skew Gallery , Calgary , Feb.2005), was a series of six large-scale works that explored my interests in the connections between light , image , and repetition. The images used in these works were generated from random shapes that, when repeated in laminated wood of up to thirty layers, and illuminated with a system of angled lights, created a shadow effect that produced an illusion of transparency and movement similar to the images in film.

There is an intention in these works as well as in all my new recent work to invite the viewer to participate in a narrative and to remind themselves of their own capabilities at interpreting images presented to them. Just as one understands a film, a book, or a work of art, we all have our own ideas and meanings distilled from the images presented to us in our daily lives and our own responses to them. As an artist I can only guide people to make their own interpretations and conclusions towards an understanding and it is precisely this autonomy that I am trying to achieve with this proposal. In the end the viewer has the power to decide what this work means and its relationships, if any, to their own experiences.

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