Mirror, Mirror Ball
Winter '01 – '02
discipline:
sculpture & environmental design
theme:
figure/ground,
play
Two disco balls articulated as symmetrical globes, located in two communicating rooms. The collapse of the two iconic images into each unit replays a thread of recent history – from the previously inconceivable picture of earth seen from space, to the romance of space travel and jet-set nomadism expressed in disco.
The mirrored doubling of each globe is already implicit in the "incorrectness" of either the figure on its surface or its reflected image. In the act of projection, each globe reveals its incompleteness and suggests its complement, making a dancefloor dilemma out of the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence.
Two disco balls articulated as symmetrical globes, located in two communicating rooms. The collapse of the two iconic images into each unit replays a thread of recent history – from the previously inconceivable picture of earth seen from space, to the romance of space travel and jet-set nomadism expressed in disco.
The mirrored doubling of each globe is already implicit in the "incorrectness" of either the figure on its surface or its reflected image. In the act of projection, each globe reveals its incompleteness and suggests its complement, making a dancefloor dilemma out of the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence.
