ARTWEEK LA
Sophia Dixon Dillo: Emergence
July 21, 2014
Marks are incised onto the surface of thick watercolor paper. When lit from above, the incisions create a play of light and shadow on the newly three-dimensional surface. The all over patterns encourage the eye to alternate back and forth between the whole to the particular, from light to shadow..
Sophia Dixon Dillo’s works on paper play with the contradiction of the nature of light, which is always present, yet not always seen. The result is a fusing of the immateriality of light with the materiality of the art object, creating a multivalent experience that subtly changes as the viewer moves.
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