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Works in the MIRROR series are visual spectacles – like a veritable Hallelujah Chorus - that play with the phenomenology of sight and light. The illusory reflections of light activated in the crystals reference starlight that is gravitationally bent, distorted and otherwise manipulated or redirected while travelling through space. When the viewer approaches the work with both eyes open, the portal appears to be a light filled surface with a subtle reflection of the physical form standing before it. However, when the viewer shifts their body from side to side, or views the work alternatively closing one eye, then the other, the surface becomes activated with shifting colours of the spectrum. This references the fact that the light we actually see when viewing the night sky is illusory. Stars appear as tiny dots in the sky and as their light travels through the many layers of the Earth's atmosphere, the light of the star is bent (refracted) many times and in random directions (light is bent when it hits a change in density - like a pocket of cold air or hot air). This random refraction results in what our eyes interpret as twinkling.
These works investigate scale, the architecture of sight, the relationship of the body to the Universe, and beauty.
