In this piece I explore the historical and mystical side of black mirrors, traditionally used for scrying, whilst also combining this with historical use of black mirrors by landscape painters such as Claude Lorrain. Black mirrors have been used throughout history, from the philosophical, mystical, scrying and moon viewing, to the technological and aesthetic.
During lockdown at the height of the Covid 19 pandemic, Zoom become the international's tool of communication keeping everyone in contact without physical contact.
This piece references this as well as the traditional use of black mirrors for scrying (looking into the future) and Foucault's quote on mirrors as heterotopias, the lockdown created many new heterotopia, including amounts others Zoom.
'in the mirror I see myself there where I am not, in a unreal, virtual space that opens up behind the surface.' Foucault, Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias.
