Art for ambient spaces
Printed on various mediums like brushed aluminium, wood, and paper, Rachel Biffin’s digital collages aim to become a manifestation of the soft edge - a way to create ambience in spaces with live, sleep, and moving in.
That is, approaching the edge, the threshold, the boundary, but in a soft way. There exists an edge, but with softness mediating it, it’s not harmful but generative.
We, as humans, need contrast, push-pull, opposition, in order to thrive. Too much though, and we’re overstretched and can lose our center. Too little, stagnancy and fogginess set in.
I believe that:
We need to feel the edges but not be on edge.
We need softness but not stagnancy and fogginess.
We need contrasts but not binaries.
We need oppositional pull but not fracturing.
We need both the hardware and the software.