Space Garbage 3 | Jubal Nance

Space Garbage 3 is a life-sized, immersive, and interactive installation that references science fiction set design. Disposable materials like styrofoam, shipping blocks, vacuformed plastic take-out containers, cardboard tubes, foamcore scraps, and other twenty-first century detritus are repurposed to become engine-room components and spaceship corridors. A red oxide color dominates Space Garbage 3, suggesting a burnt, rusted, and oily machine. A dirty patina gives the work a comfortable feeling of having been used. Heavily ribbed walls, thick pipes and massive conduits frame luminous portals that seem to be windows into a powerful reactor.

Entering Space Garbage 3, the viewer encounters a world that is alternately recognizable and novel. From afar Space Garbage 3 looks unified and intact but up close one begins to see the mundane origins of each individual component, and the crude materials reveal themselves.

Jubal Nance is a multimedia, process-based artist who draws upon his skills as both a filmmaker and visual effects artist. He utilizes traditional techniques of drawing, painting, sculpture, as well as digital processes like video animation. Jubal employs filmmaking techniques such as miniatures and set construction, pyrotechnics, and prosthetic make-up effects. Jubal has studied mechanical drawing, engineering, art, history, psychology and animation and filmmaking techniques at Benson Polytechnic HS, PCC, PNCA and NWFVC.