Mirrored Tracery Windows: 2002-2004

Mirrored Tracery Windows: 2002-2004

This series used the elaborate traditional patterns of Chinese garden tracery windows as a template for collages made of cut photographs on mirror. The subject matter of the collages was influenced by the fundamental Chinese principles of yin and yang in which opposites are brought into harmonious inter-relationship. These collages were hung on a composite of scenic wallpaper that wrapped the gallery walls and depicted a series of waterfalls, streams and ponds from a variety of locations and perspectives.

The viewer’s motion through the exhibition space generated constantly shifting views and levels of visual information between the scenic murals, the collages and the reflections of the gallery environment. These fluctuating views accentuated the viewer’s present position in the gallery while simultaneously referring to the illusion of space in the photographic imagery and the mirrors as well as the actual Chinese garden in which the original tracery windows exist.