This installation, titled “Objects of Reflection”, was part of the inaugural exhibition of the annual summer solstice art and music festival in Haines Falls, NY called “The Longest Day”.

The longest day of the year offers an extended opportunity to reflect on time past, present, and future. To see ourselves anew. To feel the rhythm of celestial movement. And to mark ourselves on the path that we simultaneously follow and create. Through connection with nature, one can more seamlessly attune one’s self to these forces and slide into a state of contemplation and release. And by extending the process of reflection to include both looking inward and outward at the same time, the objects of reflection amongst the trees provide access to a new way of seeing.

Each mirrored form offers a different viewing experience. Much like memory, no reflection is a faithful recreation or distortion-free image. The environment reflected back to the viewer is not the same one he or she inhabits, placing them in two worlds at once. And while not overtly durational, the mirror pieces unfold over time through persistent shifting in perspective, movement, and interaction. These objects stare back at the viewer, echoing devices of divination or surveillance. And not unlike our personal digital devices and technologies of choice, there is a seductive quality of these objects that draw the viewer in while at the same time concealing their inner secrets. Each object becomes something enigmatic, magical, suspicious, and mysterious; a dark world of its own.

Glass, silver nitrate, lacquer

Dimensions variable

2025