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This wall mounted vessel creates a black void punctuated by a grid pattern of reflections. The darkness suggests a vortex that stretches infinitely beyond the confines of the box walls. The light elements can be seen as human reason and rationality illuminating the daunting abyss of a cold and callous universe, piercing the unknown. The protruding steel piece in the center forms a tapered cone shape that comes to a fine point where a second light source projects outward colliding with the lamp illumination. The collapsed perspective in this focal point provide a finite reference point and respite. Wool batting painted gold filters the glow spilling out around the sides of steel square tubing, representing the ancient Greek myth of golden fleece. This fiber can be interpreted as the sun, the original source of light, spanning through the vast majority of human civilization and worshiped as a God.

Debate over absolutes persists because we are conditioned by thousands of years to believe in myth. The study of ancient history is by it’s nature often speculative, the symbolism of the golden fleece in story of Jason and the Argonauts and the myriad of interpretations a prime example of this. A parallel is drawn between myth and scientific knowledge, for hundreds of years physicists debate whether light is a particle or wave, until finally reaching a consensus that it has properties of both.

In this modern age of information and technology, falsehoods run rampant and absurd claims are given validity. The light of reason is filtered through a lens that twists and conforms, bending it to fit whatever narrative we desire. The freestanding light serves as a stand in for the viewer, projecting preconceived notions onto objective reality.