Jonathan Bruce Williams — Lemniscate, 2025, programmable LED lightbox
Jonathan Bruce Williams — Lemniscate, 2025, programmable LED lightbox

Lemniscate

Jonathan Bruce Williams
2025
49.7 × 109.8 × 10.6 cm
Programmable LED lightbox

"Lemniscate," the concluding optical work, departs from the palette of Drishti and Bifocal. Shifting fields of color are drawn toward and repelled from two focal points, while a looping moment reveals an ethereal body entering and exiting the frame. Almost imperceptible, a lemniscate, the figure eight or infinity symbol, hovers faintly, requiring patience to discover. Softened LEDs diffuse the light into atmosphere. The infinity loop suggests continuity, recurrence, and dissolution, and that perception is never fixed but perpetually circling back.

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From Let's All Abandon Reality Together, Kai Matsumiya, New York, 2025.
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