Filling a Two-Sided Box, 2025, cardboard moving boxes, enamel, mounted on wall, dimensions variable

Structures of containment hold our being. Cities hold buildings, buildings hold bodies, and bodies hold boxes of things. Boxes signal accumulations of personal matter, industrial manufacturing, and environmental transition. When boxes unfold, they reveal a structural system of unitary sides. When these containment structures collapse, interior and exterior interface as their physicalities are lost. Dimension is pushed backwards into surface, and with it, its complexity. Boxes are labelled for what they contain. Containment can become flat, but it is never emptied. Fullness is the degree to which one is filled in relation to their capacity. When capacity becomes flat, what is left to fill? Fields of black are void and load. When made to shine, they distract from flatness and reflect their exterior. The system can collapse and reorder, but if capacity remains constant, there is no development or regression. No closer to or further from fullness.