INTERVENTION / INVASION EXPLORES THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN IMPOSED ORDER AND THE DISRUPTIVE UNKNOWN. ARCHITECTS FREQUENTLY SPEAK OF “INTERVENTION” AS A POSITIVE FORCE, A NECESSARY INTRUSION TO ORGANIZE AND IMPROVE EXISTING LANDSCAPES OR URBAN FABRICS.

THE “INTERVENTION” SERIES, RENDERED IN WATERCOLOR, GOUACHE, AND INK PRESENTS MODERN, ABSTRACT ARCHITECTURAL FORMS IMPOSING THEMSELVES UPON VAST LANDSCAPES. THESE WORKS DEPICT THE HUMAN DESIRE TO CONTROL AND DEFINE SPACE, TO CREATE CERTAINTY IN THE FACE OF THE UNBOUNDED. THE ARCHITECTURAL STRUCTURES, BORDERING ON ABSTRACTION, REPRESENT ATTEMPTS TO SCULPT NONHUMAN ENVIRONMENTS INTO DIGESTIBLE, COMFORTABLE SPACES, MITIGATING THE INHERENT UNCERTAINTIES OF THE FUTURE THROUGH ORDER, COMPARTMENTALIZATION, AND LEGIBLE PROGRAMMES. THESE INTERVENTIONS AIM TO FACILITATE PLANNING, PROMOTE SECURITY, AND ENCOURAGE GROWTH, TAMING THE WILD AND RENDERING THREATENING EXPANSES INTO MANAGEABLE “SPACES.”

“INVASION” CONFRONTS THIS CONSTRUCTED ORDER WITH THE CHAOTIC INTRUSION OF THE ALIEN, QUITE LITERALLY. THESE PAINTINGS, VISUALLY CONNECTED TO “INTERVENTION,” BUT LESS CONSTRAINED, FEATURE ORGANIC, INVASIVE NETWORKS DISMANTLING THE MAN-MADE STRUCTURES. THE ALIEN PRESENCE SERVES AS A METAPHOR FOR THE RANDOM, THE UNPREDICTABLE, AND THE FORCES THAT CAN SHATTER EVEN THE MOST METICULOUSLY PLANNED SYSTEMS. THIS JUXTAPOSITION HIGHLIGHTS THE FRAGILITY OF OUR CONSTRUCTED REALITIES, UNDERSCORING THAT EVEN THE MOST CONFIDENT INTERVENTIONS ARE VULNERABLE TO THE UNEXPECTED, THE UNCONTROLLABLE, AND THE CATASTROPHIC—THE EVER-PRESENT POSSIBILITY OF AN “ALIEN INVASION” THAT DISRUPTS EVERYTHING.