U N D E R C O N S T R U C T I O N

Drove all night

thinking I’d find something 

we lost

I thought I heard

the fear in the boy

or the fire in the man

Perhaps just a trick of the light

to try and understand

the wonder in your eyes.

Perhaps Just a Trick of the Light is a multimedia installation that continues the artist’s modes of using light, lens-based media, and found objects to build immersive environments that explore geographic and metaphoric space, perception, and experience. 

JR Roykovich’s (JRR) work is project-based and site-specific, utilizing an intuitive and reactive methodology to create visual narratives by incorporating varying disparate elements into one larger whole. For Perhaps Just a Trick of the Light, JRR adopts the philosophical symbols of queer nightlife, the reflections of personal pilgrimages, and purposeful utilization of trite motifs around paranormal phenomena, both local and wide-reaching, while using Lawndale’s John M. O’Quinn gallery as a mothership of investigation. 

In addition to the installation, JRR will collaborate with performance artist Jeanette “Joy” Harris on September 12th and 13th to create a new ephemeral piece titled “A Flash of Light and a Loud Roar,” which explores research on how inflicted trauma often opens up a pathway for individuals to have perceived paranormal experiences; the title for this piece comes from a 1957 Project Blue Book report from Harris’ hometown of Centreville, Texas, where a civilian reported an encounter with something unknown that appeared to them in “a flash of light and a loud roar.”

Perhaps Just a Trick of the Light will be on view from Saturday, September 6th to Saturday, October 4th, with a closing reception on the evening of Saturday, October 4th.