Image 3: Pictured here are two cabins stacked one on top of the other, with periscopes attached to four of the windows. One allows the viewer to look from the top cabin into the bottom cabin and vice versa, while the other one allows them to see the back of their own head.
Image 4: Pictured here are the two cabins as described in the previous image. Here, a free standing periscope is also visible which across the ceiling and comes down beyond the screens surrounding the studios. This allows the viewer to see outside whilst standing in the centre of the room.
Statement: Generally, whilst making work, there is striving to achieve; I often seem to be restrained by habitual actions and reactions. What I seem to want is to express my self freely, but I don’t know what it is that I want to express. Sometimes an idea just appears and it is simply a matter of executing it. It is light and effortless. Then the desire to justify the concept and make it my own can alter the direction of the work, seeming to make it less natural and free. In this work, mirrors have appeared to offer something exciting to me. Simple objects, positioned in a particular way produce almost magical results. I justified making these periscopes by giving them a use – showing views that would otherwise be impossible to see with the naked eye.
