HEALING PORTAL

A disc of light on a black wall, and inside it a mandala that will not settle. White and cyan wire, gold filament, small drawn signs — all folded into radial symmetry and turning slowly, so the pattern reassembles into something else every few seconds without ever repeating exactly. Where the Cube holds its edges, this one holds a circle, and the difference changes what a person does in front of it. A cube is an object you look at. A disc at body height is a doorway you stand in — and in the footage that is exactly what happens: someone steps into the light and becomes a silhouette at the centre of their own reflection. Made the same night as CUBE — PRIMORDIAL PORTAL, saved sixty-six seconds after it. Both are metamorphoses of YOU ARE IMMERSIVE, and both belong to the 2020 portal series that also produced Dome the Portal.