In Reflection

In Reflection, 1995, Glass, water, steel, sunlight, and incandescent light, 558” x 72” x 27”

“I began the glass, water, and light sculpture series in 1990. The first large-scale installation called In Reflection, was installed in the Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts in 1996. Combining a series of photographs that mapped the ceiling, with the glass, water and steel elements, the installation was conceived to generate a strong correlation between the work and the architecture, especially the glass ceiling, which was designed in grids of nine, and which all the math of the sculpture was based on.

There were five sets of reflected, refracted and photographic images of the ceiling inside the field of water filled glass boxes, which was perceptually challenging to understand how the installation was constructed and in what materials and what were we seeing. By constantly looking back and forth between the sculpture and the ceiling, the viewer became more aware of the space, and the two became inseparable. Also, the refracted reflections of other viewers in the tank field, generated conversations among random visitors, bringing a level of social interaction to the experience.”