A BIT OF ME IN YOU
(ECHO POINT)
I am bits of memories until now in this mirror. I am everything that is around me and everyone I have ever seen. Until now, I have only known you in the past. In this moment, I am with you. We are sharing our eyes. I am a bit of you, and you are a bit of me.
As I walk about the mirrors I see myself from many lights. At the Echo Point I have a personal moment with hundreds of my reflections. Together we experience one another in a new way. My eyes on your face. An unexpected vantage point. An optical illusion that binds us by surprise. Allowing us to see each other in an eerily familiar way.
A Bit of Me in You (Echo Point) allows us to share our most intimate features with another. Eye contact is such a powerful interaction, and in sharing our gaze with someone else we make ourselves vulnerable. A Bit of Me in You (Echo Point) facilitates the illusion of trading eyes with a partner through an opening in a mirror.
Another optical illusion hosted by A Bit of Me in You (Echo Point) is the visual echo of the participant’s reflection in hundreds of mirrors. When the participant stands at the Echo Point, meticulously-directed, concave-angled mirrors reflect their image back in a multitude of representations.
The photographic dynamism of this interactive sculpture offers numerous angles of discovery. However, the most sought after angle is impossible to capture. This careful orientation of the mirrors does not allow for a photograph of the trading of gazes. Participants cannot document the moment of the illusion. The function of this orientation is to keep participants engaged in a moment. By taking photos, people plan to live in the past with the photograph. But by creating a moment that discourages photography, participants put their phones away and continue interacting with each other in the now.
About C.T. Hankins
C.T. broadens their reality through persistent tests of physical, optical and social experiments. The results coalesce into situations that best put their quests and understandings on display. While we toil through life trying to put words to what and who we think we are, many of us miss the most important part of our identity. Our unit to a larger whole is our strongest natural urge. The fear of being alone creates a dichotomy between egotistical vanity and social cooperation. However it is this constant self exploitation in contemporary culture via social media that keeps us focused on ourselves instead of the whole. While C.T.'s work attempts to address these concerns, it is offered to the public with the hope of inspiring cooperation and perspective shift.
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