10 by 8 (flake.verso), 2024Reflective polyester film, urethane resin and mixed media on wood panel
10 × 8 × 7/8 in.
10 by 8 (flake.verso) (2024) by Carrie Yamaoka exemplifies her ongoing exploration of material instability and surface as a mutable register of time. The title indexes both the work’s modest scale and its reversed orientation, where the “verso” or back side of reflective polyester film is exposed. In fact, revealing the verso behind the recto, or
making visible the barely seen are long characteristics of the artist’s practice. Here, Yamaoka’s process, peeling and “flaking” mark the surface with chance abrasions, producing a fractured topography that unsettles perception. Light, scratches, and chemical reactions create shifting constellations that alternately reveal and obscure. Suggesting both erosion and resilience, the work negotiates between presence and disappearance, control and chance, surface and depth.Inquire