Gossamer (The Empty Mirror of the Sky), 2024

Shuster + Moseley’s Gossamer (The Empty Mirror of the Sky) (2024) is an immersive light installation that captures the sun’s passage in the sky through a composition of suspended glass lenses. The glass lenses mediate a time-lapse video of the sky, which compresses the course of the sun over a day into a boundless perpetual cycle, a dissolution of the passage of time.

Inspired by the Tibetan practice of sky-gazing meditation, the artwork evokes the flickering strands and spheres of light that appear in our vision during this experience.

Visitors participate in the meditative ritual in a darkened space, where fifteen hand-blown lenses hang from the ceiling in an elliptical helix form, casting an infinite scroll of radiant halos and gradual tones of light onto the floor and wall, accompanied by an original sound-piece composed on electric guitar, revolving in a continuous loop.