MIRA O'BRIEN
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"Phases of the Fake Moon"

ink on paper, grid of 20 drawings, 50 cm x 65 cm each, 2009.

“Phases of the Fake Moon” are drawings necessarily made in the dark. The process of tracing a reflection of a shadow of a net placed on a round mirror is comparable to being inside a rudimentary camera. It is also analogous to how the moon is illuminated by reflected light, its shape defined by shadow. This pseudo-scientific process yielded the grid of drawings. Like a cloud, the net can evoke a myriad of associations, but its endlessly shifting form is what I find most useful.  

"Mirrored Net"

150 cm x 65 cm, ink on paper, 2009