Two abstract swirling pools flow around the bases of reflective cylinders at opposite ends of the projection. From viewpoints opposite each cylinder, the reflected images resolve into water flowing past a stone and clouds over a mountaintop.

Viewers are encouraged to wander in the swirling projected imagery on the floor, slowly finding the view in the cylindrical mirrors, which reward their curiosity with a perceptual revelation: the abstraction in constant motion resolves into familiar landscapes. The two moving images share a theme of water and earth, in the form of vaporous clouds rolling over the mountains and a river flowing past rocks.

About the artist: Ethan Jackson is a visual artist and designer working in light, photography, interactive media and installation. He studied photography, earning a BA (1992) at Williams College and an MFA (1996) at the University of Colorado at Boulder.  He has taught photography and related media full-time at Johnson State College (VT) and Reed College.

His projects appear nationally and internationally via public and private commissions, institutions, fellowships, residencies, and grants. He recently completed clerestory, a commission Denver, Colorado public library, and has been finalist for several large public commissions, including Denver’s Union Station. He has been Artist in Residence at Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Ucross, Djerassi, the Wurlitzer Foundation, and Yaddo among others.

Recent notable projects and exhibitions have taken place at Gallery Sugata, Kyoto (a series of generative anamorphic photographs, Duke University (optical installation at the Divinity School), the PASEO (interactive video at Taos, NM new media festival), and the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller NHP (optical installations as K2FF Artist-in-Residence).