This work is part of a series by the artist that brings together three disparate elements: pencil drawings on paper that are painted red on the reverse side; intricate paper elements based on artifacts; and mirrors.

First, the artist makes line drawings by tracing collaged compositions created from found and drawn imagery. Each of these compositions are made as studies for the artist's series of large paintings, Waxing Year.

Second, the artist cuts out silhouettes of the drawings, which are based on ancient Egyptian papyrus fragments held in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. These fragments are loosely coming apart along the grid structure of the papyrus itself—a woven material with a tactility that is more like fabric than paper.

Third, the artist affixes the resulting cut-out paper artwork onto a mirror—emphasizing the physicality of the picture plane. As the back of the drawings are painted red, they cast a colored reflection on the far side of the glass. This creates an illusion of the drawing being suspended in space.

In the final work, the mirror captures the present moment—including the surrounding environment and the body of the viewer—holding it suspended between the illusionistic spaces of the drawing.