A thin double-sided mirror slices a granite boulder in half. One half of the boulder is clearly a rock, an organic form rounded through millions of years of weathering. The other half has been removed, copied and cast into aluminium, exact in every detail of this now missing granite half - a silvered form which has quite a different presence to its sister half.

Seen side on, the boulder’s form is whole and complete, albeit truncated by a double-sided mirror. Seen from either end, the mirror reflects each disconnected and truncated half back in on itself, creating a whole new boulder. There now

appears to be two distinct and different boulders, depending on which end you view it from; two separate bodies within one original form.

One can view the rock part of the sculpture, coming from within the fabric of the earth, as representing our physical, material bodily existence. The presence of its silvered ‘other’ half represents the alter ego, unique yet interconnected. Through the intervention of mirrored, reflective surfaces this work speaks of dualities, body and soul and suggests there can be a variety of different ‘wholes’ sitting within one parent body – a meditation on the nature of being.

Simon Hitchens June 2023