As if unwilling to relent to the very notion of spring and vivacity it embodies, Mother Nature delayed by several days the installation of Matthew Hereford's installation at kork earlier this month. "Highland Path" is testament to the coming of a new season.
The work is a sort of visual onomonopoeia. It is what it looks like.and it looks like something real. And it is real; real components are playing themselves as if in a walk on roll in a sitcom in the formation of a fictionalized representation of a view of itself, of nature.
The scale is a little disorienting. This is a God's POV and the size relationships between elements and composition engender a frenetic blurring and refocusing of the eye as it works to discern what is in the fore and what is receding. It's this constrained view finder onto a distant pastoral scene lends the entire kork board a sense of receding. Even as the work itself is a dimensional and additive amalgam of collaged elements, the work as a whole functions as a negative; a removal of the constructed office interior to reveal that natural scene through or within the wall mounted portal.
The components of Highland Path were collected during the many walks Matthew takes in the Hudson Highlands.
Maybe it's just me, but the more I look at this work, the more I get the sense of time and space folding in on itself over and over again.
Matthew Hereford's work will remain on view through April 30, 2010.
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