Mirrors

This series explores mirrors as objects used for more than vanity. Constructed from wood and transformed through extensive sanding and paint, the material origin of each work is intentionally obscured. A familiar, natural material becomes artificial and hard to pin point.

The works consider reflection as more than an act of looking. A mirror returns our physical image to us, but the world can act as a mirror in another way, reflecting our internal conditions through the way we perceive and experience it. Our desires, judgments, anxieties, beliefs, and sense of self become filters through which we interpret what is around us. The same experience can take on entirely different meanings depending on the person encountering it and the inner state they bring to it.

In this way, our external realities can echo our internal conditions. The mirror becomes both an object and a reminder. What we see is inseparable from the lens through which we are looking.

These works invite reflection not simply on the image in front of us, but on the inner world doing the looking.