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The installation really was quite beautiful, thinking back and looking at these photos. There's something about hanging glass in a dark room. And of course, the flames. It has a rather surreal and calm, serene feel to it. The effect might have been better if it were set up in a large, otherwise empty room - the first floor area was quite small, to be honest.

I began to feel like a scientist as I walked about the edge of the installation, making observations of the setup and scribbling away little notes in the small notebook I had brought for this purpose. For example, I noted that the mirrors appeared to spin at different speeds in each setup, but upon closer inspection I realised this was simply a trick of the eye - the mirror appears to spin slower when viewed from the front, but from the side one sees each side of the mirror switching more rapidly, and therefore it seems to rotate faster when viewed from that angle.

Over time, I also noticed how the tempo of the heartbeat-like sounds would vary, and sometimes even disappear entirely. It would segue from heartbeat-like, regular thumps to lower frequency hums, and vice versa. Suddenly drum-like sounds would appear for a very brief moment, especially from the taller setup, and this was very funny to me. The new sound left as soon as it came, and I never heard it a second time the entire time I was there.


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