Portfolio > The Black Mirror (series) 2019-2023

2020 (detail)
2020 (detail)
2020

Mirrors are magical: they reflect the present, they can represent the past, or anticipate the future. In ancient Japan, older geisha would use black lacquer (urushi) mirrors because it softened wrinkles in their reflections. In this piece, the black lacquer has a depth to it, at once reading as a reflective surface, and a deep void, it conjures up different levels of consciousness.