Nicole Coson

I am interested in exploring the concepts of visibility and disappearance, with reference to camouflage and concealment in nature as well as in human applications as tactical countermeasures. I am in search of a productive position within invisibility that lends artists the opportunity in which we are able to negotiate the terms of our visibility. To vanish and reappear as we please and as necessary to our own personal and artistic objectives. 

My work operates between print and painting, between organic and the mechanical, between the anonymous and deeply personal, between a specific place in the Philippines and anywhere at all. 

I create works that seek to stretch and skew the viewers ability to detect cultural precursors as memories, where identity and location blend into seamlessness constructing a space which is both familiar and alien, escapist and entrapping. I wish to create an imagined safe space to run away to, a place which stems from a point of personal history, a moment intricately and preciously encased in layers of fleeting apparitions of my father and tropical childhood flashbacks. An instance I can step into, when things become overwhelming and frantic, beyond the dimensions of the living, a place of perfect dislocation. I want these works to function as architectural interventions of physical space piercing walls with flourishing green windows inviting the viewer to get lost in misty tropical landscapes or breaks between blinds and into the stage of a memory accessed countless times.