I counted fifteen mirrors in this house, but could never count the number of portraits.
Each painted portrait captures its sitter in a premeditated moment of their performative self.
Each mirror contains the pattern of reflected light for every face that ever looked into it.
In 1978 the physicist John Wheeler proposed ‘Wheeler’s delayed choice experiment’. This thought experiment employs the principle of the wave-particle duality of light to propose that light can ‘choose’ to be a wave or a particle depending on how it is subsequently measured. In short, this suggests that actions of the present can influence the past. Wheeler used the term “participatory universe” to describe a universe where all our minds are in some way deeply connected with the very fabric of space and time. For me, this opens up the imaginative potential for these mirrors as windows into time travel.