TRANSITORY SPACES 
Collaboration with Houston artist Gissette Padilla
Room Installation, dimensions variables variable

Transitory Spaces is a collaborative room installation by H. Jennings Sheffield and Gissette Padilla. It investigates the idea of time and physical and psychological space through light and projections. Their work explores different facets of perceived spaces and layered images.  Padilla creates the physical space utilizing vertical strips of translucent fabric that hang from the ceiling.  She screen prints layered images and patterns onto the fabric.  These patterns represent the noise and static that is created in the mind as if to fill in the gaps of a memory.  H. Jennings Sheffield then projects videos and sound of recontextualized personal memories and appropriated family imagery onto the fabrics. The multiple projections of imagery and sound overlap and distort the visual space. The projected imagery begins to fill in the missing information and characters in Padilla’s created spaces and joint moments in time are created.  

Upon entering the space, the viewer is encompassed by the projection and are asked to walk around and explore the space. As the viewer explores and interacts with the created space and characters, they too become part of the memory.

​Click on video below to view installation.