Random Thoughts Passing Scene

Jesse Sherburne’s professional practice and academic research explores transdisciplinary practices that fall between art and design. Sherburne’s projects are created with a focus on intermixing environmental and object design with installation and conceptual art. These works aim to create challenging and transformative experiences for the public participants with the goal of questioning expectations of engagement and interaction within social space. As well, Sherburne’s objects, environments and large-scale installations also focus on concepts relating to memory, emotion and mythology as a means to heighten public engagement and meaning for participants.

Random Thoughts Passing Scene focuses primarily on light and movement. The linear architectural sculpture installation mirrors the forms that make up the matrix of our city’s landscape. This landscape is often experienced as part of a daily commute and although the passenger is in motion, the blurred landscape experienced by the commuter generates its own momentum and movement. During the day it is seen by its coloured aluminum forms that adhere to a palette of black, red and grey and refer both in form and colour to the architectural landscape of Edmonton. By night, the sculpture comes to life as an ever changing pattern of form and light—a system of red, green and blue environmentally friendly LEDs create a constantly shifting spectrum of colour that emits from behind each linear wall form.