Yo Mirage!, 2016

Long’s rhyming texts are cut from Moab silver board and mounted within stacked plywood light boxes. The mirage effects are entirely analog: light enters through a field of perforations on the reverse of each box, causing the text to flicker, shimmer, and vanish as the viewer moves.

The words’ shifting legibility turns reading into a visual phenomenon—an atmospheric play of disappearance and return. Like a mirage, the work hovers between message and light, language and illusion.


Yo Mirage, installation view, plywood boxes, laser cut texts, Long Studio, 2015
Yo Mirage!, video documentation, 2016


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