A mirror reflects an image. This work reflects something else: the subconscious of the person who contemplates it. The piece draws on the long history of the mirror as archetype: Narcissus, Dorian Gray, Carroll's looking glass, a device that always promises more than reflection.

The experience begins at a distance, where the pictorial surface reads as abstraction - a cloud of pixels, a play of colour, voids and mass. This is the crystallised result of a long sequence of programmed transformations over an archive of archetypal images.

Move closer, and the surface reveals itself: macro configurations of nature, mysterious architectures, sacred sites, fragments of bodies, unintelligible landscapes. More than a thousand images, selected to reach toward the subconscious and the memories of whoever engages with the work.

The viewer is forced into physical contact with the piece. A lens becomes the mediating object; manipulated by hand, it determines the route through the surface. Some will read left to right like a book. Others will wander, building short narratives. Others will jump between elements at random. Each path is singular.

The ritual deepens through sound. Headphones connect to a generative application producing electronic ambient music in real time; sonic worlds that develop autonomously and respond to touch. Sound isolates the viewer, progressively distorting the perception of time and space. It is from this condition that the encounter with the work truly begins.

Mirrors, 2021
inkjet print on Innova High White 315g paper, lens, headphones, generative sound application
92 x 161 cm