Homo Speculos | 2015
5 true mirrors in matt-black columns (38 x 38 x 168 cm, 38 x 38 x 162 cm, 38 x 38 x 138 cm, 38 x 38 x 128 cm, 38 x 38 x 118 cm) | Exhibited at Adam Aronson Gallery, Laumier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, Missouri

The popular 18th Century text ‘Fables of Florian’ offers an image of the idea of a Mirror of Truth: Simple Truth herself made bold To rove at large with glass in hand, Each in her mirror dar’d to trace,
Without a blush, his own true face. But crimes and vices stole in fast and soon those happy days were past. Then Truth, disgusted, to Heaven flew, And back to earth her mirror threw. Alas! ‘twas
broken in the fall, And scatter’d wide and lost to all.
This gives us an image of a broken truth, constantly in need of repair and assemblage. Homo Speculos, is a work that reflects on this condition. It places five ‘true mirror’ assemblages on five pedestals at different heights and angles, such that a person appearing in front of it, sees himself, or herself, broken, but re-assembled, and laterally un-reversed. What emerges is an assemblage of what humanity might like to think it is, in five ‘true mirrors’ that show us as we think we ought to be.

