Steampunk | Fever Dream (2018) studio by Dr. Jon Yoder
Haven Unit No. 3
a sensual survey of the look and feel of architecture…
Haven Unit No.3 is a project designed for the pleasures of viewing, and as such, examines the image and sensation of architecture. Viscous finishes take on the forms of near-fictional scenes to elicit attention through the use of the sensual, semiotic and scenographic nature of material, color and composition. As with any sensual encounter, much is left to the imagination. Instead of a full reveal, the images offer a partially concealed agglomeration of familiar things: ducts, vegetation, appendages, bladders, and pools.
This congealed pile is akin to the allusive forms of Ellie Abron’s ‘Inside Things’ and Bittertang’s ‘Romulus and Remus: Succulent Piñata,’ but simultaneously aims for estrangement. Together through the filter of bricolage, the images are pushed towards making over meaning, thing over representation, alive over inanimate, inviting an open and interpretive reading. The curated ambivalence and fuzzy-legibility of each instance is meant to prolong our engagement and offer complexity though layered associations.