(Inferior) Mirages, 2012
Pigment prints on archival rag paper, 4 x 6 inches, Marget LongMirages occur when a steep thermal gradient bends light rays, projecting an image from above into an inverted form below. A patch of sky becomes a pool of water; a cloud wavers on the ground. The phenomenon is not a hallucination but an optical fact, an image made from air. Yet our attempts to interpret it produce illusion: movement toward the mirage confirms nothing. The landscape continually asserts and retracts itself.
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