Rocca Gutteridge

I am interested in transitory states. Undetermined conditions when someone or something is in a state of flux between two elements. The meeting of day and night; adjoining structures in architecture; vents and piping, which mark the transition between internal and external environments, and the questioning of our perceived states of reality.



Inspiration for this show was derived from a physical experience I had in a hostel in Arizona. Waking up surrounded in blue light with such intensity that was almost liquid. The desert sunrise shone through crude synthetic blue curtains creating an environment that fell somewhere between a natural and artificial experience. The feeling was that of being unnerved yet intrigued, unsettled but excited at the same time.

This room is made up of a series of observations, a crack in the pavement, a moment of captured motion, light seeping through gaps and emerging creaks and rumblings. Through a common thread between these individual elements the room becomes a tangible physical experience.