bi-focal

date 1996
location spirit and place, museum of contemporary art, sydney
medium glass, brass, wood, mirror, water
dimensions 1800 x 2 x 0.3m
photographer artist
collection artist

The work demands that the viewer places an eye against a spy hole, in the inner space that opens up is the viewer’s own eye, this space of self-reflection is interrupted by slow but steady series of water drops. Nick Waterlow, Numinous Worlds Exhibition Catalogue

references

Numinous worlds by Nick Waterlow, Spirit and Place, Catalogue 1996

The water works of Robyn Backen by Sue Best, Eyeline, Spring 1998