Look Back

Look Back is made from suspended black banners, rust-corroded cotton, and fragments of mirror hand-sewn into the black. The rust is transferred through prolonged contact with iron and continues in the fabric after separation. The mirrors are too few, too scattered, and too far apart to return a whole image. Body, room, and light come back only in pieces.

The materials are arranged to be seen but not to be read. Contact comes back as corrosion. Looking comes back as fracture. Nothing here is arranged to reconstruct. Not a coherent self, not a recoverable past, not a grief that can be followed from beginning to end. Prior use remains present in the materials. Look Back leaves that condition in place.