![]() Scrying involves peering into an object for inward reflection, or to receive a message or prophecy. The occult technique of scrying works the same way. Landscape painters often used black mirrors as a tool to abstract the subject reflected in them by reducing a scene’s colour and tonal range. We’ve taken this idea and multiplied it in scale. Although the screen is ubiquitous today, black-tinted mirrors have long been used for their ability both reflect and abstract what’s before them. Staring into a black reflective surface with a glow behind it, the Black Mirror installation calls to mind our use of cell phones. For comparison, daylight is 98,000 lumens. These super bright LEDs have a combined output of 168,000 lumens. Behind the mirror are twelve custom-built 100W LEDs arranged radially, spreading the light outward in each direction and softened by a sheet of scrim in between. The Black Mirror is a tinted reflective dot in the centre of a recessed white area. As part of a series of exhibitions commissioned by Cadillac for Canada 150, our Black Mirror installation at Union Station in Toronto is an opportunity for self-reflection, drawing inference from Canadian lighting innovation, and is our take on the power of light. In 1874, Torontonians Matthew Evans & Henry Woodward patented their design for the incandescent light bulb before selling the patent to Thomas Edison, who went on to produce and popularize their design. ![]()
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