Brian Boldon
3-D Chair, 2010
Digital glass decals and UV-bonded glass
Courtesy of the artist

Brian Boldon uses optics—reflection, distortion, and visual sequencing—to reinterpret familiar objects. For this piece, Bolden fused multiple digital images of a1940s office chair to intersecting glass planes, which are assembled into a three-dimensional matrix. The artwork invites us to ponder the physicality (function) and the idea of a chair through a digital analog that disrupts these associations. It takes us into a sensory realm between the material and the imagined. Object and image are folded together into one single event that moves beyond the purely visual and, instead, activates a more complex embodied sensory intersection for discovering meaning.