Miya Ando b. 1973

Mizukagami (Water Mirror, or The Shadow Of The Moon Reflected In Water) is a hammered steel floor sculpture by the artist Miya Ando. Evocative of the fugitive phenomenon of the moon reflecting on the surface of a pond, the piece is expressive of the overlap of emptiness and substance. Like so many of Ando’s paintings, and like the moon itself, this sculpture seems to emit light despite lacking any source of illumination—a momentary articulation of both presence and absence. “When you see the moon you see the light of the sun,” Ando says. “That reflected light is reflected again when you see the moon on water.” This piece debuted in Ando's 2022 solo exhibition Kumoji (Cloud Path / A Road Traversed By Birds And The Moon) at Kavi Gupta gallery in Chicago. The works in that show are expressive of the transitory and immaterial quality of nature’s impermanence and interdependence.