Translucent and reflective, Mirror Image examines the shaping of perceptions in the absent presence. Evoking a Victorian cheval mirror – sans silvering – the crystal glass frames an excised centre of human scale. Sited on a prominent headland overlooking Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau's harbour entrance, the empty space frames the passage of ships over the waters below an ancestral volcanic island, navigating the channel to the city, in a  trade route plied since colonialisation. As the light changes, the glass margins slide between transparency and reflection, imprinting the visage of spectators, structures, and trees directly onto the landscape. Bleeding content with context chameleon-like, Mirror Image recreates itself again in shadow, from pencil thin to re-forming the Victorian frame amidst an ongoing chemistry of light and air.