Each piece is an instrument: an architectural or mechanical system, retrofitted, that puts a body inside a deformation of space. The viewer's body. The viewer's perception of where they are.
A practice can be small enough to fit in three nouns and still take thirty years to work through. Body, image, place.
TODO: lead-in for LGA Architect phase (2000–2009).
TODO: lead-in for LGA Partner phase (2010–2015).
After 2010 the public art record thins because the practice changed channel. Warne joined LGA Architectural Partners in Toronto as a partner; the instrumental sensibility — architecture as the discipline that puts a body inside a deformation of space — moved into buildings.
The art-instruments of 1995–2008 had always been architectural in method; the 2010s simply ran the method through licensure and a portfolio of buildings. Permanent commissions from this period sit at the seam between the two registers, art performed through architecture.
TODO: lead-in for Studio Canoo phase (2016–2017).
TODO: lead-in for Z Modular phase (2018–2020).
TODO: lead-in for Skyhook phase (2021—).
The LLM-and-scan-data pipeline is the latest instrument in the sequence: a system retrofitted to deform the body's relationship to a captured space.
The earlier works' question — what is the psycho-geographic relationship of body, image, and place? — recurs in the present tense.
