interior design | installation design | photography
I am an artist and a designer. I have a MFA in interior design from Parsons where I received the “Portfolio Award” for the best consecutive designs of my graduating class. My work experiences combine project management and interior design in both the residential and commercial fields.
Questions & Considerations of Space: photography, environments (interior | exterior), and space
My curiosity with and questioning of space began at a young age with photography. My grandfather passed down his Olympus-OM2 to me. I used (and still use) that manual camera as a means of interpreting my surroundings.
I began by asking: what is natural and what is constructed, inside and outside? Photography has been a way to question and ultimately reframe environments. This evolved from two-dimensional to three dimensional space; into analyzing, deconstructing and designing interior and exterior spaces. What characteristics do exterior environments share with interior environments. Where are exterior boundaries? What are interior boundaries? How can my photography be used as a tool to change the way we see ourselves in relationship to our built and natural environments.
I am curious about and excited by space. The places we create have the ability to reinforce a sense of place. In an increasingly digital world, this is essential.
Inquiries and collaborations: kristineugeniostudio@gmail.com
Here are some words that inspire me:
“Space seems to be either tamer or more inoffensive than time; we’re forever meeting people who have watches, very seldom people who have compasses. We always know what time it is (who still knows how to deduce it from the position of the sun?) but we never ask ourselves where we are. We think we know: we are at home, at our office, in the Metro in the street… That of course is obvious - but then what isn’t obvious? Now and again, however, we ought to ask ourselves where exactly we are, to take our bearings, not only concerning our state of mind, our everyday health, our ambitions, our beliefs and our raisins, but simply concerning our topographical position, not so much in relation to the axes cited above, but rather in relation to a place or a person we are thinking about, or that we shall thus start thinking about.” | Georges Perec
“Interiors are elusive. You can’t ever see an interior. Like eating an artichoke, you keep peeling away exteriors until there’s nothing left, looking for the essence of something. The interior is something you can only believe in, which holds all of the parts together as a whole, you hope.” | Fred Sandback
“Form is also color. Without color there is no form. Form and color are one.” | Donald Judd
“The thing about the horizon is it recedes. It cuts across dualisms of inside and outside. Always present, never reachable. It is neither purely outside or purely inside...the horizon has something intangible, something inviolable about it. Man cannot remove it, not even in thought, nor can he reach it. Every fence can be removed, every limit can be reaching, every frontier can be crossed. The horizon nonetheless, is given as an absolute limit, an impassable boundary. Here again the horizon is shown as not entirely outside. What is outside in the world is accessible...The horizon opens the question whether mental space is not perhaps more physical than one thinks. But the visual field which is encircled by the horizon is thus more mental than one is sometimes inclined to suppose: It is the human reflected domain.” | Cornelius a Van Peursen
