Layered Potential by artist Elyssa Sykes-Smith is a site-specific installation that explores the psychological state of the layering of ideas to arrive at new and unexpected conclusions. The artwork includes on figure depicted in a gesture of reaching our and projecting shapes and colours, symbolic of layered ideas, into the space.
Layered Potential was created using a selection of acrylic, sourced and pre-fabricated, at Allplastics Engineering: Perspex and polycarbonate. Sykes-Smith utilised a variety of Perspex elements to create the figure including translucent, opaque, frosted, mirrored and fluorescent elements.