Lemniscate by Jonathan Bruce Williams, 2025, programmable LED lightbox
Lemniscate by Jonathan Bruce Williams, 2025, programmable LED lightbox
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"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. An infinite loop suggests continuity, recurrence, and dissolution, a perception that is never fixed but perpetually circling back.

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

61.8 × 109.8 × 9.5 cm

2025