Amy Kao's work is concerned with seeing and how she can manipulate us into being conscious of this process with her visual pyrotechnics. On the other hand, Sante Scardillo's work is concerned with how advertising tries to manipulate the viewer and by artfully altering the text, underlines what it is actually saying. The combination of these two artists emphasizes the fascinating range of intents and stylistic approaches that co-exist in the very simplest of formats. Amy Kao's Mylar pieces are explorations of perceptual emergence achieved through light. They consist of incisions, made with a razor blade, to create an aggregate of a singular motif, achieving spatial volume through a play of shadows against the translucency of material.
Volume defies mass and opacity.
Luminosity is defined as soft, hard, translucent the diffused movement, reflection and emanation of light. An equally compelling imperative is the permutation of a geometric motif. Evident in these Mylar pieces is the issue of de-materialization. It is at this junction where the work is situated, in the threshold between negation and emergence, the tangible and the intangible. However, these works are not exclusively a pure investigation of the optical, for they deal with the whole experiential, perceptual event.