I had already been looking at Camille Utterback’s Text Rain piece before class and wanted to do my post on it, but since we discussed it in class I decided to explore Utterback’s work further in search of a new subject.
What I found out is that all of her projects interest me, not only because she seems to take special care in her work’s aesthetics (simplicity, minimal elements, balanced composition), but mainly because her pieces exist through the connection of the work with its environment or external space and interaction with the viewers. I am sure that Picasso and Braque, who started creating the first collages ever known with the intention, amongst other things, to expand the work of art into the viewer’s space, would be amazed and glad to see how far technology has developed that idea.

Untiteled 5, 2004.
Camille UtterbacK

Irene Perez