Lines of Navigation (2020)
Installation
This work is a series of five sculptural interventions in the Women's Courtyard - using a combination of light and mirrors - to slow down and/or shift the viewer's movement, encouraging a more thoughtful, contemplative, attentive engagement with the site. Playful and directional, it is installed between the entryway and courtyard of the Old Teacher's College building. By creating multiple viewpoints which partially disorient, the audience becomes more attentive to their own ways of seeing.
Each station asks the audience to shift their reading of the space, framing the space in the same way that architecture frames our own perceptions and memories. Sculptural infrastructures capture the audience's vision, bending it with mirrors and shaped glass, focusing it through peepholes and periscopic tunnels.
Mirrors and direct channel video allow the audience to view themselves in the process of viewing the space, Playing with scale and perspective, the viewers will happen upon their body as if by chance, or in new ways, watching a video of the back of their own head. Mirrors are also used to expand the space with a doubling effect similar to a Rorschach print. Peepholes direct the viewer to gaze upon another sculpture as if it were another person, and at the same time, catch other viewers interactions with the space. Glass lenses bend and distort light, and a curved mirror allows the audience a wide view, revealing spaces that are usually hidden in the same way a road mirror opens up a driver's view for safety.
