The Gaze installations relate most clearly to the current preoccupation with beauty and our aversion to the aging process. In Hovnanian’s mirrors, wax coated narcissus blossoms float in miniature vases made from Botox bottles. Glance and The Gaze act as multi layered portraits, appearing at first to be a mirror referencing the universal compulsion to look at one’s reflection.
Dallas Lights, 2015
Narcissus flowers in encaustic wax, botox, bottles, white powder-coated steel, glass, plexiglass, LEDs