One Point Perspective Experiments

Jay Mills, One-point perspective experiments, 2016, Digital print on paper, 40cm x 40cm

These works have been made in response to a series of studies I conducted which focus on line, colour and space, exploring the responses that are invoked when perceiving coloured patterns placed in a perspective space within the flatness of a picture plane. I primarily wanted to emphasize on using one-point perspective that is a mathematical system for representing three-dimensional objects and space on a two-dimensional surface by means of intersecting lines that are drawn vertically and horizontally and that radiate from one point on a horizon line.

Through prolonged viewing, the work can be perceived to be changing; the colours intermingle and shift, deepen and soften, and awaken and pulsate they communicate with one another, taking the viewer on a phenomenological joy ride. Investigating the natures of pictorial space and the expressive possibilities of colour, manipulating line, whilst also utilizing the uncertainties of perception to play optical games, propelling the viewer into an unrelenting optical experience that transcends everyday concerns.