MARTA VEINBERGA visual artist

THE SLIGHT DIFFERENCES BETWEEN TODAY AND YESTERDAY
prize stickers, adhesive film, tape on plywood
152.5 x 305 cm
2019

The Slight Differences between Today and Yesterday is a work about an experience of changes that can pass unnoticed, but are visible by a distance. This idea corresponds to the way the piece is build-up. By a close view, one sees a myriad of characters making color and pattern relationships; a step back and these pixels start to form shapes – from purely geometrical to architecture-like; at a large distance, the image shifts between two and three dimensions and the eye starts to wonder the ‘streets’ of the imaginary city or the map.

Yet another aspect of the title refers to the slow process of making the piece. The author has glued the stickers one by one to the surface instead of, for example, scanning and arranging them digitally, that would take much less time (but would also produce another visual result). Here the time-bond, bodily experience is a part of the meaning production.