ceep, 2019 

by Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky

archival digital print

24 x 18 in (61 x 46 cm) unframed

edition of 10

ceep, depicts the entrance to a fictional alleyway. This space borrows some of the character of videogames based on isomorphic perspective, at the same time as it suggests the mystery of the sparsely populated streets of de Chirico. In the scene, terms related to the physical properties and processes of watercolour – seeping and blotting – have been rendered as tags that, along with the rest of the image, have soaked into the shallow depth of the paper.  The playful gibberish of the tag, text which is clipped by the front edge of one of the walls framing the deeply receding represented space of the alley, are messages from a world with its own rules and language which lies, somehow, further inside the paper.

-Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky