size variable | hand-cut paper, iridescent medium, two-way acrylic mirror sheet | 2009 | In Case We Don’t Die | Torrance Art Museum | Torrance, CA (2013)
I’ll be your mirror
Reflect what you are
In case you don’t know
— Velvet Underground
The exhibition space was open, airy, cavernous. Other large sculptural works filled the eye throughout the room, and my spot was right in the center of it all. I had no hidden nook to play in; I was exposed. So I decided to stay subtle, to disappear.
Two-way mirror has the unique quality of being simultaneously transparent and reflective. Depending on its angle, the material can vanish and then optically reappear like a glistening moorage. It played well in Reflect What You Are, merging into the lacy white cutouts and creating glassy echoes of those nearby — a delicate merger of lightness and ambiguous pallor.