• Multi-media installations ranging across the Cathedral and engaging with the building
• Sculpture, painting, light, sound and music combine with a musical festival to form a multi-sensory, multi-dimensional event
• Interactive pilgrimages, meditations, talks, worship

This many-faceted response to the idea of Reflection offers the visitor a personal quest as they walk around the Cathedral by considering how Reflection, in all its different meanings, affects them. The multi-sensory installation explores the notion of reflection in a number of ways; visually, using a variety of materials including ‘found objects’, mirrors, reflective surfaces and multiple reflections; and through sound and music. Together they express metaphors of reflection, self-reflection and contemplation. Through ‘true’ reflection and distortion in myriad ways the visitor is presented with a journey which raises questions about how we see ourselves. This provokes the questions ‘Do I know myself?’ and ‘Who am I?’ Our aim is to offer an unexpected experience which will endure in some form. Reflection is both the subject and the medium, a contemporary response to a concept which has great roots in Christian spirituality and Medievalism.

There is a plan for major portions of the installation to travel to Western Connecticut State University later in 2012 on the occasion of the Dalai Lama’s unprecedented teachings on the arts at WCSU.
Reflection is highly appropriate to Buddhist thinking.

‘Art should be like [a] mirror Which reveals to us our own face.’
Jorge Luis Borges