Convergent Realities - Marcel Hoogstad Hay

Marcel Hoogstad Hay is interested in the ways people perceive the world; their perceptions of space, time and matter, and how these preconceived notions relate to the way things exist in the physical world. He is fascinated by the way spacetime is influenced by the physical forces in the universe and, using the material and optical qualities of glass, he explores this idea through the distortion of image, pattern and form. Working with traditional Venetian techniques he creates complex, gestural patterns. These lines of cane allude to paths traversed and how physical forces disrupt and distort these paths. The intricacy of the patterns when duplicated in the mirrored surface become more complex, making it ambiguous for the viewer to decipher which lines are material and which are reflected. Through this work Hoogstad Hay is trying to capture the converging of these two realities, the physical and the perceived.