Glass Houses: Self Portraits In A Moving Mirror
Glass Houses marked the beginning of an ongoing investigation into reflection, distortion, and transformation using a self-constructed reflective environment made from polyester film. Since 2012, this process has remained a recurring part of my photography.
In Glass Houses, I capture split-second deconstructions of my own reflection by manipulating flexible mirror surfaces made from polyester film. Their sensitivity to light, color, and movement creates reflections that shift through countless configurations in fractions of a second. The resulting images resist fixed representation, allowing the figure to appear fragmented, doubled, obscured, or caught in a continual process of becoming.
Through this process, the mirror becomes less a device for self-portraiture than a site of negotiation between interior and exterior experience. The images emerge from an attempt to understand how identity shifts under pressure from memory, fear, desire, and change.
