Rendered in acrylic on mirror, this work operates as both surface and threshold—reflective yet absorptive, stable yet spectral. Reverse-engineered from... Read More
Rendered in acrylic on mirror, this work operates as both surface and threshold—reflective yet absorptive, stable yet spectral. Reverse-engineered from REM-state imagery, the piece transposes the invisible strata of dreaming onto the optical field of the viewer, where self-perception and psychic residue intermingle. The mirrored substrate refracts not only light but also the gaze, implicating the observer in a recursive feedback loop of contemplation and projection. Informed by Vedāntic cosmology and Gestalt dream analysis, the work extends the ontological inquiry of turiya—pure consciousness—into a visual syntax of transparency and recursion. What appears as stillness is charged with symbolic motion; what seems reflective is, in fact, emissive. Through chromatic fields derived from the mythic architecture of the sun’s golden chariot, the work renders light not as illumination but as introspection, where the metaphysical meets the molecular, and the mirror ceases to return likeness, offering instead an invitation to dissolve it.
