Placement: on furniture

Space forms through a palindromic movement. From left to right in the first instance, a physical space-holder takes attention away from the space it holds and, thereby, negates that space. Whereas in the opposite direction, from right to left, a lost space-holder does the converse: it pronounces its space as a physical form.

Space practising tool number one is one of five space practising tools the artist made to explore the object nature of space in the book Space Practising Tools.

Nine circulars spaces in a grid of three by three where each portrait consists of the missing spaces that comprise the other portrait.

The background space behind a portrayed figure in a picture becomes the figure portrayed.

The spatial figures in this group of three family portraits are separate individuals that, when alongside fellow family figures, extend into each other.

Space is a shared background. In this edition of five family portraits, a shared background fills the figure portrayed in each portrait.

Where the space of one figure ends, the space of the following figure’s portrait begins.

Since each repositioning of the box reproduces the original block of space now lost, how do I make a block of space that remains the same block of space whenever someone moves the box? And how can the block of space differentiate itself from surrounding space so the box no longer looks empty, but full…