Reflections and the possibilities within them have been an artistic focus of Delia Landers for over 10 years. They first began the project in 2013, by noticing moments in which reflections created a brief disconnection from expected reality: like a cloudy sky reflected in a car mirror set against a bright blue expanse. However, as Delia’s artistic practice and personal ethos have evolved over the past decade, so too has the focus of the project. The smaller windows into breaks with reality are accompanied with moments of deeper abstraction and therefore, deeper possibility. These represent a desire and ability to reimagine one's reality entirely and to recognize the beauty and complexity of everyday moments. 

 

Delia draws on their experiences as a political theorist, a queer person, and an artist to imbue the paintings in this series with conceptual possibility that represents a larger ability to question and change one's reality. They emphasize this through the more otherworldly, bizarre, and intriguing aspects of these reflective moments. They then further abstract these scenes through the translation into paint with their brightly coloured impressionist style pieces. Through the paintings in this project, Delia looks into their own memory and experience to show how the ability to break from expectations exists beautifully all around us. In these pieces Delia is often present in the reflection alongside their phone as they capture the moment; this both creates a further temporal and spatial distortion, but also invites the viewer to see themself within the image and become aware of the possible breaks in reality that occur visually and philosophically all around them.

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