About the work
A doorway returns across 102 individual works, encountered one at a time. Its recognizable shape carries through changing color. Each piece stands on its own; moving between them brings another part of the work into view.
A doorway gives absence a shape. We recognize an opening without knowing what lies beyond it. Memory, anticipation and imagination enter that space with us.
As one image gives way to another, a color can linger after it has left the screen. An opening may seem pronounced, quiet or unfamiliar in relation to what came before. What we notice belongs partly to the image and partly to the encounter we bring to it.
You can linger, move ahead or go back. Even a quick passage through all 102 takes time. The impressions carried between images, and the attention given to each, become part of how the series takes shape for you.
Never the Same begins with continuous change. Our ideas, circumstances and relationships keep unfolding. We arrive at each encounter carrying what has happened since the last.
Return to the first work. The image can be exactly as you left it, yet the encounter is no longer the first. There are other openings in its history now—and in yours.
The opening returns. We do not return unchanged.
About the work
The series grew from a conversation about change, recognition and the part we bring to what we see. An abstract doorway became the recurring form, with color drawn from Abstraction's palette.
Its 102 individual works openly acknowledge Andy Warhol's Shadows, a painting comprising 102 canvases. Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Here, the relationship between works unfolds as someone moves through them. What remains from one encounter meets what arrives in the next.
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