The Grid

"There are two ways in which the grid functions to declare the modernity of modern art. One is is spatial; the other is temporal. In the spatial sense, the grid states the autonomy of the realm of art. Flattened, geometricized, ordered, it is antinatural, antimimetic, antireal. It is what art looks like when it turns its back on nature. In the flatness that results from its coordinates, the grid is the means of crowding out the dimensions of the real and replacing them the lateral spread of a single service. "

"Grids are not only spatial to start with, they are visual structures that explicitly reject a narrative or sequential reading of any kind"

http://art.yale.edu/file_columns/0000/2996/krauss.pdf

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As I have been making my experiments my mind has been going back to Rosalind Krauss' ideas about the grid in art. Without realising it I have been recreating a lot of these ideas in my videos. It is an idea very specific to art of the modern/contemporary era and so it makes a lot of sense that as I am recreating ideas of the avant-garde I have fallen into this. As I am talking about space and time in my work I think it's very interesting to employ the grid, as Krauss says the grid is a spatial structure. To me it almost becomes a flattened sculpture of sorts. At this point in my process i'm looking to the grid as playing a big part in my work.