This sculptural installation The Crystal Image was installed in Venice, Italy, in 2010 inside the historic Venice Arsenalle for the Arte Laguna Prize. I was named Best International Artist
This installation references the ambiguity of space and time as it is depicted in the final dramatic shootout in a hall of mirrors in Orson Welles’s 1947 film, The Lady From Shanghai. The installation consists of a network of paintings, mirrored surfaces, and empty black metal frames that make direct architectural reference to a traditional mirror maze and pulls the viewer into a dislocating, perceptive experience. Unlike in the cinema house, where the images move and the viewer remains still, here the viewer moves through the space, and enters an illusory representation of cinematic space and time. Slowly walking around the frames, the viewer realizes that certain parts of the image are repeated in separate paintings, and that each painted image is only one layer in a complex fragmented depiction.
