mirror I

Installation: approximately 27 x 70 x 1 1/4 inches (68.6 x 177.8 x 3.2 cm)
Two columns of eighteen white, wall-mounted shelves, each 1 1/4 x 32 x 1 1/8 inches (3.175 x 81.3 x 3.175 cm), with each containing 30 acrylic-painted wooden cubes (1080 cubes total)
Signed and dated on one shelf in graphite

At first, 540 black, .875″ wood cubes are set toward center in inner-most 15 slots of each column, while 540 white cubes are set toward outside in outer-most 15 slots of each column.

Working instructions:
“Switch any black cubes with any white cubes so result of participation is symmetrical. In other words, cubes on left side mirror cubes on right side.”

Notes:
Instructions as much part of installation as other elements
Audience does not always follow instructions/interprets instructions; this is part of the art.
(Inventory #31557)