Patrick Jacobs: Nocturnes

Each nocturne is constructed in miniature mounted within the walls of a freestanding room and viewable through circular glass lenses. Jacobs created these works during his residency at the gallery.

Recreated ‘moonlight’ provides the primary light source for panoramic, tightly cropped intimate scenes.  Some depict subject matter naturalistically, while others will verge on abstraction. This room within a room installation will reveal the unfinished structure as well as the exposed backsides of each diorama. These hallucinatory gardens of the imagination reflect a strange and wondrous beauty. Confronted by a fusion of dissimilar images, we are drawn into spaces at once determinate and infinite, natural and contrived, prosaic and otherworldly. Reality is defamiliarized, and the uncanny is supplanted by the commonplace.