The Looking Glass Lounge

Domino sculpture inspired by Tom Robbin's book "Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates"

LGL installation at HAUS Gallery in Pasadena featuring the "comma couch"

Elaine from "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Installation at HAUS with "Jane Eyre" on the far wall

Jane's Mirror

Jane's vanity

Alexandria from "Oh Wilderness" by Willa Cather

Detail of Alexandria's vanity

Greit from "Girl with a Pearl Earring"

Griet's mirror with quote: "Her face lingered like perfume"

LGL installation at HAUS featuring "Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolfe

Mrs. Peel from the popular 1960's British show, The Avengers

Mrs. Peel's vanity

Ginevra de Benci at the Riverside Art Museum

LGL at the Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825

Susie from "Lovely Bones"

Detail of Susie's vanity

This project was shown in several places. Solo exhibitions/installations at HAUS gallery in Pasadena, California, The Los Angeles Art Association in Los Angeles, The Riverside Art Museum in Riverside, California and a window installation at the Homestead House in Pasadena, California through Phantom Galleries.

The Looking Glass Lounge explores the nature of beauty and self-worth in time, and looks for the truth in fiction, reflecting individual voices of popular fictional female characters from various cultural/historical time periods. Mirrors - associated with vanity, reflection and self-analysis - seemed to me to be a natural medium for this exploration. I think of the mirror as holding the spirit of the character and the vanity as holding the physical life and/or relics of the character. An atmosphere that is beautiful and secluded (a.k.a. a ladies lounge) appears to me to be a perfect context for this investigation.