IOSIS

Site-specific light installation at the Mill at Vicksburg, Vicksburg, MI, 2024

Iosis is an installation in a historic paper mill where the windows become photographs. Using a light-sensitive cello film, each window becomes a unique exposure of light. This process bathes the interior space in the color red, creating an immersive, somatic experience, stimulating our heartbeat and respiration. The title "Iosis" is the Greek word for the final stage in alchemy, in which red light symbolizes enlightenment and universal healing. I was inspired by the mill as a site of constant transformation — the history of paper production, the mill’s current revitalization, as well as the shifting directional light throughout the day. By activating the windows with color, the space is transformed into an interior prism of shifting light and heartbeats.