Dichroic laminated glass composed of broken glass, float glass and gelatin filters
Magic Mirror Steel Blue consists of three sheets of Securit glass. The central sheet held
in a vice is shattered by a sharp, precise blow into a multitude of small
fragments whose propagation from top to bottom is visible. The “magic” source
of the colour is a very thin transparent membrane known as a “dichroic” which
makes the whole surface produce all the colours of the spectrum, especially
blue, depending on the combination of light and the moving eye.
Liberated from hierarchical composition,
the eye gets lost in the mystery of the work, its subtle layers of colour in
space. With their image reflected back to them, visitors are confronted with a
real threshold between the simplicity of the form and the complexity of the
experience.
