Oculus Block

Edward Mayer
Oculus Block
Zinc plated steel and wire
2006 -2007

At the core of this piece, as in all of Mayer’s work, is his concern with the repetition of modular forms, the reuse and transformation of everyday objects, a preoccupation with linearity and transparency and the creation of a delicate balance between order and chaos. Oculus Block is a 9’ cube of wired together, garden-variety tomato frames. The multiplicity of these common items and their web of intersections create a structure whose tunnels and surfaces seem to endlessly open and shift, inviting the navigation of both a six sided ‘block’ and an intricate interior pattern of cones, circles, spheres and diamonds.