Mixed Media Art

I love peering through a scope, staring at tiny, beautiful and vibrant glass pieces. What a mesmerising invention by Sir David Brewster patented in 1817. The slightest turn of a hand and these tiny glass fragments rapidly and magically transform into a variety of colourful patterns.

Life is like a kaleidoscope! Mesmerising and altering continuously. With this in mind I took a photograph of a flower which I altered into a kaleidoscope. Flowers are fragile and can be crushed with the touch of your hands. This symbolises the fragility of our state of mind.

The soul and body was portrayed by cutting up different coloured glass into triangular fragments according to a diagram of Sir David Brewster's patterns of a polycentral kaleidoscope. I added images of chakras and stars. Chakras representing the internal light emitting within us, which is our soul. Stars representing our bodies, which consists of the same elements as stars.

I then overlaid the two images. By superimposing these three elements. I am expressing the wondrous power you have in just the turn of your hand. You have the abilities of creating infinite, kaleidoscopic patterns into the fabric of your very existence through the slightest alterations of your body, mind and soul.