A Third Register of Space is a non-linear narrative that alludes to boundaries, borders, frames and other registers. It also implies liminality, the space between demarcations. Throughout these drawings there is a strong sense of suspension (both literal and figurative) between choices, between states of the static and dynamic, and between possibility and actuality.

In August 2007, I was invited by Gary Michael Dault to respond to his unpublished manuscript of poetry, The Bronzino Poems. Bronzino, the main character in the poems, was a Mannerist painter in the royal court of the Medicis. I decided to borrow the Mannerist’s focus on reality through detail of texture. My process then followed an intuitive path of decontextualizing objects and creating unusual juxtapositions in order to transform reality into visual poetry.

In these drawings, two streams of poetry, the visual and the textual, play off each other. The narrative that arises from that dialectic is tied to both the reality of the experienced world and the realm, or the register, of imagination.