Learning to Breathe Underwater / House on Fire is a registered projection installation. It is made up of a composited, and projected image of a prince having sex with a mermaid on a canopy bed, made using three video projections and five overhead projections. The drapery of the canopy bed is projected through dishes of water animated by fans. The viewer uses an aluminum “slipping slide” fastened to an overhead projector to activate the act of intercourse between a prince and a mermaid – implicating the gallery visitor in the perverse gesture.

House on Fire uses 3 overhead projectors to create the image of a large box of tissue on another wall. A large mechanized pinwheel suspended over one of the projectors provides a never-ending billow of tissue rising from the box. There are 10 cardboard-mounted slides piled next to another projector. Each features a 2-frame, “lenticular” animation of a pattern, which is animated only when the viewer drags it across the surface of the projector.

Originally commissioned and installed at the MASS MOCA, this panoramic, projected image is created using six overhead projectors and three video projectors, all registered together on one wall, to depict the image is of a figure lying in a baroque interior, before a shattered mirror in a pool of blood, holding a large mallet. Two of the overhead projectors are interactive, and the animated gestures and gender transmutations are activated when the viewer moves slides across a lenticular surface on the overhead projector. Two other projectors are projected through pools of water, giving the expressive drapery a dream-like animation. The exterior landscape, the flourishes of drapery and the face and mortality of the figure are all projected into the vignette by video projectors. The Thief of Mirrors was also exhibited at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.