Boxes hold like words, books and poems. A clamshell box is a specific type that holds a space. As a traditional form, it is used in libraries to protect, preserve, and store manuscripts of the past. In my work, I think of it as a metaphor for a protected interior space that holds knowledge like a memory, a thought, a feeling, an idea, a fragment. Unlike the traditional form, I have opened a side to frame the interior view.
When You Know is a series of clamshell boxes with an interior and exterior view: an interior with the words “ When you know what you don’t already know you know”, framed by an exterior plane. I contemplated these words and reflected on connections between the inner and outer states of being.
Y 2 U is a series of clamshell boxes intended to be viewed on the wall with a code to be broken.
Upon A Time There Was No Time Once is a series of two sided clamshell boxes that stand and frame musings about time.
Mind The Gap is a clamshell box that stands rather than sits on its side and acknowledges another space rather than the interior of the clamshell.