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sorrow mirrored, 2012

45" x 83" x 5" (93" wings extended)

mechanical design: Colin Harry

programming: Automation FX

machining: Paul Cahill

edition of 2

In sorrow mirrored we are presented with the word sorrow made from custom mirrored glass tubing. The middle “r’s” are extended and reflected to face or mirror each other and to suggest canes. The formal layout of the word visually resembles a palindrome and in a Beuysian way, there are allusions to healing in the performative actions of the kinetic sculpture. The panels on which the rs are mounted move up and down covering the s and o and o and w. Functioning like a rowing machine or elevator, the wings in the upmost position cover and momentarily erase “sorrow” before returning to the closed position. 

sorrow mirrored references how we are exposed hourly to other peoples tragedies through media culture. We have a choice as to either absorb other peoples tragedies or become desensitized to them.

Exhibition History

2017   Ordinary Obsessions. Art Yard, Frenchtown New Jersey. Curated by Magda Gongalez-Mora.
2015   Forme élargie / Expanded Form. Regart, centre d’artistes en art actuel, Lévis, Québec. Curated by Amélie Laurence Fortin.
2012   TIAF, Toronto, Ontario. Represented by the Olga Korper Gallery.
2012   solving man ray’s obstruction. Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.