lights through paradox

Kiln formed glass fragments, steel cabling, projector. 2021 and 2023
Varying dimensions

An immersive installation of kiln formed glass fragments, suspended in a lens-form that interfaces the light cone from a digital projector to create a spectral optical ‘painting’. The lens is composed of fluxing fragments, which describe a bi-convex spheroid form that never resolves into solidity. Referencing the origin of lens-based technologies (using glass left over in the glassblowers kiln), each multi-faceted fragment scatters the light into a disorientating field of vision; a vast, spectral, cosmic landscape. 

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The present is a time of disorientation. When we turn our lens to the contemporary, we are confronted by a scattering of light. This fragmentation veils the future in a cloak of unknowability. But, ‘how can we live without the unknown in front of us?’ (René Char). The act of becoming conscious consists not in the resolution of any fixity, but in an unknown, around which our symbols circumscribe. Gazing at this fractured lens—through the paradoxical play between orientation and disorientation; form and fragmentation—we hope to invoke a meditation at the opening of the paradox, ‘in this rebellious and solitary world of contradictions’, such that we might embrace the unknown in front of us.