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Exhibition statement for Vanish, Art Gallery of Regina - 2008
By: Jack Anderson, Curator

As a representational image, John Noestheden’s Milky Way Mirror Two – a dense cluster of reflective crystals - diagrams a section of the actual star field we inhabit, as taken by the Hubble space craft. As an optical space, it suggests a small but vast time-space portal through which we are plunged into a space of the imaginary. As a mirror, it instantaneously returns us to ourselves. Playing with the mechanics of light, the physical operations of vision, and science’s systematic descriptions of physical reality, this work equivocates between tangible/ intangible, organized/chaotic, near/far, and now/ then; playing with the notion of the mirror, it reconfigures us fractured as a sparkling ‘zip’ of light and energy beyond the temporal phenomenal present.