Reflections


A glass tank contains a small world where the clouds chase across the sky and sunlight flickers amongst the hills. The world is reflected in it's own lake. Another 'lake' is set in the sky creating multiple images that repeat over and over extending this continuous world into the sky and down into the earth. The sheets of glass that make up the sides of the tank are also transformed into reflective surfaces as they are lit on one side by the moving landscape inside the tank. Reflections not only encloses the net of a particular landscape but also encloses its passage through time. Landscapes throughout the Artist's work take the place of time. Their volume and space becomes the representation of time. 

Reflections emphasises the passage of time by depicting the continued cycle seen in the time-lapse footage projected. The glass tank creates reflections on all sides, expanding and repeating a net of space inside another room, and expanding the representation of the time that is captured inside those repeated spaces. Reflections is a descriptive device for multiple moments, cycles within cycles, the continuous turning of the world, its movement round the sun, the Milky Way in the ever expanding universe.

 Reflections does not show infinity, it only hints at a world outside of itself. However, its angular form connotes a human understanding of the passage of time, in which we all exist but cannot fully comprehend.