Biombo/Mashrabiya  is a hybrid that involves architecture of self-consciousness where the uses of the two-way mirrors (in an ode to Dan Graham’s pavilions and interrogation rooms) are simultaneously transparent and reflective. They are about looking and being looked at and about access of information and being information.

Biombo/Mashrabiya is comprised of hand woven rattan screens framed by wood and metal. Juxtaposed with two-way mirrors on a moving track, the work floats off of a mirror on the wall with a suspended copper shelf, carrying a light bulb. The screens invite the viewer to decide on the extent of  the reflection, deception, seduction, and secrecy to be had in this space. A space with a metaphorical relationship to Foucault’s Heterotopias in that it depicts a space of otherness that is simultaneously physical and mental, and neither here nor there, but still nurtured by the hidden presence of the sacred; a sphere that is both private and public, familiar and social.