Labyrinth for a Good Grief
Amaryllis R. Flowers, 2019-present
108 in h x 132 in w
Installation
Sequined fabrics, holographic textile, video, cracked mirror and light

A labyrinth is a navigational tool that favors being lost. I made this labyrinth to not only be an art object, but also to be a light source creating a lighting condition that art is viewed under and making everything differently legible. Pink and purple lights are focused on the massive textile work, which then refracts this light into speckled fiery hues and fragments of colored light from the reflective cast of the mirror. Since its creation in 2019, I have re-installed this work in separate installations to act in this way. Its most recent iteration is pictured in the exhibition, Even There, There Are Stars, at the CUE Foundation in New York, curated by A.L. Rickard, and which presented a small group of artists whose work centers a future for those who were never meant to survive.

Other images show past installations of this work. In total darkness, the labyrinth is suspended by chains. Projected onto its surface is a looping video where a rainbow phantom covered in eyes descends from a storm, face down and ass up. She loops continually, descending from the sky for infinity. This video projected onto the sequined veil and cracked mirror refracts into fragments of different colors, lighting the spaces it is installed like stained glass.