Mirror Darkness  Site-specific installation: black gloss acrylic, steel, manipulated digital prints: B68; Coalsack Nebulae; LDN 483; LDN 1768; LDN 1774; Lupus Nebula. Dimensions variable

Installation at Lumen Studio (The Crypt, St John on Bethnal Green), London.

Exhibition narrative (pdf)

A site-specific installation that parallels the strangely futuristic qualities of Lumen Crypt Gallery – designed by Sir John Soane and built in the early nineteenth century – with the architecture of space telescopes. Drawing on the darkness and religious context of the crypt, images of dark nebulae are manipulated to resemble strange, supernatural, cloud like forms – poised in configurations around black mirrors that have been cut to designs based on the James Webb Telescope.

A narrative accompanies the installation, assuming the machinic voice of a telescope. The text is written by a deep learning algorithm trained on telescope technical papers and the medieval Christian mystical text, The Cloud of Unknowing.