I first started working with Kaleidoscopes for my Optohedron sculpture. This piece was inspired by the act of viewing, thinking about seeing as the fundamental interface between the person and the world. Whilst exploring this idea, I investigated optics, the science of light, which took me to an ancient instrument, the Kaleidoscope.

The Kaleidoscopes I am making are a particular type known as ‘Spherical Kaleidoscope’s, they consists of 3 or more reflective surfaces arranged to create a tapering tube, the viewer can look through the tube from either end to see objects and views repeated as a regular symmetrical pattern. Due to repeated reflection and the angle of the reflective surfaces the view from the larger end creates the illusion of a jewel-like spherical object inside the tube.

The geometry of Spherical Kaleidoscopes corresponds nicely with the polygonal geometry of various polygons, especially the Icosidodecahedron which is at the heart of the Cluster sculptures.

The first large Reflection sculpture was MK Portal