"With this work, my intention is to guide the viewer’s eye through an invented space. I am inspired by Hitchcock films, particularly his use of unusual camera angles. I chose to reveal my fasteners and to construct work simply. I do so to allow the viewer to walk through the steps of construction, to build up to the final image.
With the new series, I open the suitcases and attaché cases and use the interior space as a workspace. I continue to be interested in moving from the sculptural volume to lines and planes and back again to volume. The wall, the floor and the cascade from wall to floor all interest me visually. There is a kind of composed cacophony in the work, with grand aspirations to the kind of energy that one projects into the Prison print series of Piranesi or in the tunnels of Martin Ramirez's drawings. As the work becomes more abstract, music, dance and fashion all become more important as sources of varying kinds. The challenge I am taking on is to get to a level of poignancy that satisfies the urge that has historically led me to imbed some representational images in the work but that as the work towards abstraction. " Wendy Hirschberg, 2008
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