Pile an extra layer onto reality to make it collapse

The piece elevates simple forms/materials to the natural sublime. Walls open up to outdoor expanses, imparting a meditative experience of being in nature. Viewers cast unexpected shadows that evoke atmospheric effects, such as seeing one's shadow cast onto fog in the mountains.

The unusual method that generates the scenes draws attention to how viewers are accustomed to looking at moving imagery — even while standing next to the lights and reflective surface, viewers reflexively think that the imagery originates from a projector at first.

However, the imagery originates not from anything real but from much more humble means, for instance, the whole aurora scene is created from a small fold in the material. Using the material as volumetric reflectors makes it possible to create unpredictable scenes from simple shapes.

This work engages metaphorically with the perception of atmospheric phenomena and of reality. Consciousness is likened to sky and all phenomena, including the self/ego which is not immutable but socially constructed ('ego fetishism'), as happenings in this sky.

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