Mirror is a collaboration between Cinematographer Gerry McCulloch and Social Sculptor Betsy McCall. While established photographic terminology is replete with the language of aggressive material acquisition (we ‘take’ pictures; we ‘shoot’ photographs and films; we ‘capture’ images), Mirror advocates a receptive rather than an acquisitive approach, in which the formulation of images is conceived of as an interaction between perceiver and perceived, not as a conquest. The accent is on inter-connectedness and the status of the process is in equanimous balance with the product. In this configuration of creativity, Gerry and I position ourselves as unselfconscious catalysts rather than self-determined authors. We regard participants and observers as co-creators and collaborators. A Mirror experience de-stigmatises otherness and functions as an antidote to politics of estrangement founded on difference. Engaging with the artwork dissolves boundaries of language, religion, politics, ethnicity, age, gender, socio-economic status and personal sovereignty. Participants and observers subliminally discover that in important respects we are all “the other person” to one another. For more info, please visit MirrorProject.art

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