Mirage

Project Information

Event
6th Manifestation Vidéo et Art Électronique

Location
Montreal, Quebec

Size
500 ft2 / 46 m2

Date
2004

Collaborator
Tom Balaban

Photos
by Designer

Project Description

“The role of the object is to restore silence”

- Samuel Becket

Expressing the ideas of an emerging hidden life and the expanding slowness of thought, the mirage manifests itself as the symbolic illusion of the breathing incinerator. A multi-layered distortion of lines, the piece represents an abstraction of the geographic horizon. Like waves of heat emanating off the hot desert bed, the mirage oscillates and bends light to create space instilling the inanimate surface with the breath of life.