Mirror Sculpture

'An orchid dreams they are a woman, who dreams she is becoming the ocean with skin like radiolaria, who dream they are a statue of a small rare bird, who dreams they are a cloud of perfume…’ This sculpture was made by casting reclaimed glass and bioresin with pigments, earth and cubic zirconia. It is part of a range titled ‘An orchid dreams…’ that follow imaginative and material threads of continuity between animal, plant, object, and our perceptions of animate and in-animate. By tracing silica as a compositional component of the bodies of plants, the bones of animals, the exo-skeletons of marine organisms, and cultural objects such as glass ornaments, these sculptures and jewellery pieces suggest an expanded locus of subjectivity, and a shared universal body, as they materialise a flow of becoming across and between forms of life and objects of the imagination. 'An Orchid Dreams...' is on display at Pieces of Eight Gallery from October 19-31, 2026. It is showing as part of the Radiant Pavilion Contemporary Jewellery and Object Biennial.