Mumble Jumbo

The law of reflection states that

• The incident ray, the reflected ray and the normal all lie in the same plane
• Multiple reflections are the result of a reflected image or an image of an image, reflecting back upon itself, with nearly infinite reflections.

The front cover of my second grade reader had a drawing of Dick and Jane reading the same book with Dick and Jane on the cover, reading the same book of Dick and Jane and on and on. It was my introduction to the infinite and in a way to the idea of multiple reflections bouncing back upon themselves for as long as the reflected light can hold them. 

A suggestion of this phenomenon can be captured on a single plane when it is printed, a shifting moment frozen in time.  The reflections have multiple depths, reflections of reflections, shadows of what’s above and below.  Layers built upon layers. The idea that an image of a reflection can, at once, show what is above, on and below fascinates me.  

Does this reflect the same way in time? 

These images are my questions and my exploration of that which we can almost see; reflections, multiple exposures, layering and in camera motion, portals through which light and objects travel, reflections and layers, passages through space and time.  Shapes are formed by positive and negative space.  Is it in or out? Which is up, which is down?  Now and.. is then before or after? 

Perhaps I would have had answers to these questions and my path have been straighter if there hadn’t been a mixup my freshman year of high school.  The schedule assigned me to physics and boys physical education.  It was a year too early in the school curriculum for one and I was biologically unfit for the other.  The professor asked me to leave the physics class (it wasn’t a class for girls) and the boys phys ed instructor had me wait in the bleachers during classes for several weeks while they worked it out.  I never caught up with Physics, though the switch allowed for a drafting class (another ‘boy’ class,  but what could they do?) and my lessons with perspective, line and layers commenced.