ANDREW O’CONNOR
CA/ON
Lost Illusions is a suspended field of translucent forms - hand-marked, light-activated, and in slow motion. A canopy of shifting surfaces gathers overhead, where projection and air currents produce a quiet choreography of reflection, drift, and depth.
Lost Illusions (2019 / 2026)
Hand-painted and screen-printed duralar sheets, suspended sculptural installation, video projection, stereo sound
Lost Illusions is an immersive sculptural installation shaped through transparency, texture, and refracted light. Hand-painted and screen-printed duralar sheets - each over seven feet tall, inscribed with root systems, undergrowth, and tangled vegetal forms - are suspended from a single overhead grid, gathering into a dense, canopy-like field.
Beneath this suspended landscape, layers of projected light drift across the translucent surfaces, scattering colour and shadow into the surrounding space. Subtle air currents set the sheets in motion, producing a slow choreography of shifting reflections that ripple across walls and floor.
The work unfolds as a kind of constructed ecology - an environment assembled from memory, gesture, and light. It hovers between the tactile and the immaterial, the intimate and the expansive, inviting viewers into a space of quiet attention. Here, perception slows. Layers reveal themselves gradually. What appears fixed begins to drift.
Originally developed with support from the Ontario Arts Council Media Arts Creation Grant.