Two Modules: The Infinite Box and the Optical Dissolution Panel

Two Modules: The Infinite Box and the Optical Dissolution Panel

Two Modules: The Infinite Box and the Optical Dissolution Panel

Two Modules: The Infinite Box and the Optical Dissolution Panel

Most of my installations are built from two structural modules I keep returning to — the way a composer returns to a chord. Naming them helped me understand my own practice; sharing them might help you read the works.

The Infinite Box

A chamber with mirrored interior walls and an internal light source. Look inside and the reflections repeat into a corridor without end. Private Conversation (2012) used it to let two strangers meet inside the same infinity; Portal (2017) buried three of them in a wooden bridge so that crossing became a small ritual; In-Between (2017) tilted them in a forest clearing, reflective by day and glowing by night.

The Optical Dissolution Panel

A 120 by 120 centimetre panel mosaicked with roughly 1,050 small mirrors, each set at a slightly different angle. Stand before it and your image shatters into a cloud of fragments that moves as you move. Thirty panels formed the first in[visible] tunnel; sixty made the twelve-metre version that 30,000 people walked through at Untold. The panel does with space what memory does with the past — keeps every piece, but never in the original order.

Two modules, fifteen years of variations. The lesson I pass to my students: you do not need a new trick every year — you need one honest mechanism and the patience to ask it every question you have.

Let’s create your next big idea.

Let’s create your next big idea.

Let’s create your next big idea.