Incendiary
Paper Cities B
JL Smith
Since visiting Hiroshima, Smith has been reflecting on power: what overpowers, what empowers us to rebuild, and the ruptures that continue across generations following cruelty. What remains in the wake of disaster? How do we reconfigure a world that is constantly fractured? These pieces were made using transparent adhesives, mica, sea glass, and a beam of light. Light ignites the mineral. Waves and time smooth the edges of the glass. We ask for transparency, but we rarely get it.
