Pixelated Spatial Light Disruptor, I
David Teeple, 2021
Installation for Project Stillpoint
Project Stillpoint
LAND ART / ART LAB
Project Stillpoint has been conceived as a living site for permanent large-scale works of art, and a dynamic gathering place for people to explore vital themes in a fast-changing world.
It brings together research, conversation, experimentation, and making, in a collaborative setting, where art, nature, perception, experience, and dialogue can interact and unfold freely.
Emerging from the studio practice of artist David Teeple, but reaching far beyond, the project establishes a framework where artists, scientists, and fellow critical thinkers will engage through residencies, guest installations, formal dialogues, and ‘happenings’, contributing to an evolving field of work and community that is shaped by shared inquiry and direct experience.
Designed as a series of experiential stations integrated into the landscape, each station will exist as a distinct work with a specific perceptual objective, but is also a component of a unified metabolic system.
The stations will be placed in dynamic relation to one another. The realized master plan will be determined by the specifics of the chosen landscape — topography, cardinal orientation, natural features, subsurface conditions, and seasonal variation.
Kiva and Amphitheater
Project Stillpoint will employ a distinct, structured dialogic format. Conversations, happenings, and symposia will be held within the installations, introducing structured actions that interrupt fixed patterns of thought and shift attention.
David has developed a range of techniques in his public talks and performances. By injecting sensory shifting actions — sound, movement, regulated silence, among others — these interventions alter the experience, moving beyond a purely analytical focus. This mind body modality is structured to align intellectual clarity with direct perceptual experience.
The dialogic model is a core function of Project Stillpoint. The process is designed to help recognize when we fall into intellectual feedback loops, and to move into a raw, sharpened state of attention. The dialogue remains open, responsive, and grounded in direct experience, with the goal being a more comprehensive understanding of the topic.
David Teeple
“For decades I have worked across sculpture, installation, photography and works on paper, on a sustained inquiry into perception, material presence, spatial experience, and the unstable relationship between observation and reality. My thinking is shaped by direct engagement with physical and sensory phenomena, natural systems, structure, impermanence, and states of heightened attention, producing works that strive to be rigorous, sensorial, and contemplative.
I have developed my work through an independent, research-based practice. Until now, working outside conventional gallery structures, I have produced an extensive and largely unseen body of work.”
Stillpoint - Diagrammatic Gesture, 11
David Teeple, 2026
Archival pigment print
20” x 40”
Stillpoint - Diagrammatic Gesture, 10
David Teeple, 2026
Archival pigment print
20” x 40”