Portrait With Your Higher Self

On view at Wavefield, NYC, July 2024

A micro-prism screen in the style of a classic photo booth. This screen naturally pulls a single face into two separate, hovering images. The prisms split the subject’s reflection so that one version appears below, looking upward toward its counterpart above and vice versa. They share the same source, yet each image carries its own posture, its own slight difference in presence.

Like a brief conversation between two selves—the grounded and the astral. —created not through digital manipulation but through the physical behavior of the prism surface. The camera captures this doubled encounter as it happens, revealing how a simple optical shift can open a quiet, almost holographic space where a person meets their own reflected other. A moment that happens more often than not.

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