Contact
- Artist
- David Spriggs
- Date
- 2013
- Dimensions
- 80 × 52 × 39 cm
31.5 × 20.5 × 15.25 in - Materials
- White paint on layered transparencies in a display case
- Exhibited
- David Spriggs: Phenomenon, Pulse Miami
Contact explores the tension between attraction and separation.

Two white formations approach one another from opposite directions, narrowing towards the space between them. Their shapes suggest currents drawn into a shared encounter, with one descending as the other rises. The title gives this arrangement several possible meanings: touch, collision, communication or connection. Each begins with a relation between separate bodies. The tapered forms concentrate that relation into a narrow interval, making the anticipation of contact more compelling than a completed action. Their soft, cloudlike appearance gives the encounter a fragility at odds with the forces they seem to carry. Held within a still enclosure, the opposing currents sustain a moment of approach that the viewer can continue to examine.




