Loop: Replaying Your Fate inside

Loop: Replaying Your Fate inside

Wed Aug 13 2025

Loop looks at how struggle repeats quietly over time. The work compresses a large, vertigo-inducing idea into three handheld infinity-mirror boxes stacked in a vertical line, reading top, middle, bottom: body, city, ground.

At the top, a model hand covered with tiny figures becomes both a stage and a trap — the push-pull within the self.
In the middle, a miniature city grid stretches into an endless corridor, suggesting routines and rules that swallow the individual. At the bottom, a sparse field with scattered figures holds the pause after repetition — a space where viewers can project themselves.

The process is deliberately simple and direct. Each box uses a two-way front panel and a back mirror; a single row of coin-cell button lights runs along the side to guide the eye toward the vanishing point, reduce glare on the subjects, and keep power draw stable. I prototype by placing, removing, and re-placing elements, then test how the reflections build. I initially planned four boxes; after trials I removed a colour-wax version because the tone felt wrong for this vocabulary — leaving three scenes that speak more clearly together.

The work is grounded in two influences I keep returning to: seeing Samara Golden’s Guts at AGNSW in 2023, and the intimate light-box worlds of Guillaume Lachapelle. Their sense of “falling space” is scaled down here so the infinite sits in your palm — small, quiet, and hard to shake off.

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