A look inside Image Continuous…
The interior lateral reflections disappear into a black void creating a contrast with the external vivid reflectivity. Mies van der Rohe created the world’s first skyscraper, bringing us up into the sky—here I bring the sky down using 1 ton of skyscraper glass, half the glass he used to create his iconic glass house for Edith Farnsworth.
Part of-
David Wallace Haskins: Landscape + Light
At Mies van der Rohe’s Edith Farnsworth House in Plano, IL
This work always trips me out of my head and back into my body. It’s such a strange feeling to really experience how we move through space and time and fill it with such volume and consequence. It reminds me that the present moment is not so much a "moment" we are trying to arrive at and stay in but rather a flow that we rest back into.
Time Mirror IV will be on view this evening as part of Future Stages @svstudiosla from 7-10pm - an evening of interactive dance and music performances, digital art, film screenings, and more.
Butoh dancer @carolinemhaydon will performing with Time Mirror IV around 8pm.
If you are in LA, please come out and say hi!
Time Mirror IV (2016-18)
From the Time Mirror series
Camera, LED screen, custom software and computer
StandardVision Studios
Los Angeles, CA
Special thanks again to my dear friend and creative technologist @lejeunerenard for his continued collaboration in making the Time Mirror series possible.
We’re in the final phase of rehearsal, tightening, refining, getting everything ready. So excited to share this work with you this Sunday at Guggenheim Museum with Works & Process @worksandprocess
Grateful to be part of this community and to contribute to a legacy that continues to evolve. And especially grateful for this incredible team, everyone bringing their full artistry, care, and commitment into the room.
See you there.
WORKS & PROCESS PRESENTS
IN THE FOLDS OF HER PURPLE
by Xin Ying
In partnership with Onassis ONX and PS21: Center of Contemporary Performance
@onassis.onx@ps21chatham
Special thanks to @marthagrahamdance have always give me inspiration and support.
Panel Discussion
Moderator: Janet Eilber
Panelists: Xin Ying, Timothy Kelly, Alan Winslow, David Wallace Haskins
@janeteilber@therealjimjelly@alanwinslow@davidwallacehaskins
Performers
Janet Eilber
Lloyd Knight
Amanda Moreira
Jai Perez
@lloydknight@jai.perez@amanda__nicole18
Music
Myles Avery @myles_avery
Bárbara Moreira @b.arbxrx
Media & Creative Technology
Media and Lighting Design: Timothy Kelly
Volumetric Media: Alan Winslow
Real-time Interactive Video Installation: David Wallace Haskins (Time Mirror V)
Costume Design
YuChang Xiao @yuchang_xiao
Inspired by
Lamentation (1930) by Martha Graham
#dance #dancer #marthagrahamdancecompany #marthagraham #xinying
Deeply honored to have the renowned flamenco maestra @irenerodriguezcompania dance with my Time Mirror IV at Dancing the Algorithm @jacobspillow ! 🔥 🙏🏼 🔥
And a huge thank you to creative technologists @classicshimmy and @ethanrainbolt and the team @jacobspillow for all their help making this happen, and to our curator @khfdance for the invitation and support! ♡ ♡ ♡
And special thanks to beloved archivist @norton_owen (who you can hear at the beginning of this video) for his help bridging my Time Mirror series to the time-wizardry of film animator / director / producer Norman McLaren’s innovative Pas de deux (1968) and Ballet Adagio (1971). It was such a delight to watch these on CD-ROM and VHS at the Pillow Archives.
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Ascension / Descension
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by David Wallace Haskins @davidwallacehaskins
2018
Glass, aluminum, wood, LEDs, polycarbonate,
and existing architecture
"Ascension / Descension" was an architectural intervention of Mies van der Rohe’s McCormick house in Elmhurst, IL. Part of David Wallace Haskins's "Polarity" exhibition at the Elmhurst Art Museum (@elmhurstartmuseum ) in 2018 and 2019, it highlighted Mies’ interplay with the earth and sky, architecture and nature, the ranch house and the skyscraper.
Consisting of 2,000 sq feet and 3 tons of glass mirrors, the installation created an infinite Miesian grid ascending and descending inside the house. Visitors were invited to walk out onto the glass feeling themselves suspended between the endlessly repeating layers of sky and earth, putting Mies' one-story glass house in conversation with the skyscrapers that made him a modern icon.
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I am excited to announce this new sculpture series made from architectural blue glass. These volumetric glass works are evolutions of my Skycube series, which I have been developing over the past twenty years. While the Skycubes use angled and parallel planes to reflect the sky, these new works focus use a similar geometry to create perceptual volumes through thin planar boundaries, allowing color and light to become spatial material.
I wanted to move the Skycube language toward something more atmospheric. Instead of reflecting the sky, I wondered what would happen if the forms themselves could behave like the sky, holding light, scattering color, and changing with the movement of the sun throughout the day.
The works are intended for indoor display on a wall, shelf, or plinth, ideally in a well-lit space, they especially love sunlight.
Volumetric Glass (Blue), 2025
Glass
10 x 10 x 40 in (25.4 x 25.4 x 101.6 cm)
