The visuals and text for this piece were initially inspired by the book, "GLASS: A World History" by Alan McFarlane and Gerry Martin. This anthropological history explores how the development of glass for precise optics, mirrors, and windows transformed our relationship with the natural world and impacted the divergent courses of Eastern and Western civilizations.

This piece furthers my interest in the reflective and porous qualities of a translucent membrane as investigated in my previous work on the theme of Narcissus (see "N1"). In shooting, I wanted to present Paul Outlaw with situations that were experiential, durational and unrehearsed--more about doing than acting. Playing with the Renaissance practice of drawing on a glass pane to represent perspectival space, Paul instead draws the outlines of his own reflection.