The Spiral no. 4:
Dreamsicle
> Video, Drawing, Ice Installation by Emery Gluck
The Spiral is a series of interdisciplinary installations exploring the phenomena of spiraling.
The window is the mirror. The window is the painting. The window is the screen. The window is the threshold between the inner world and what surrounds it. The window is where two dualities meet at their edges, only to realize they are each other.
Like the treat of childhood where two opposite flavors are one, the icy translucent tart melts into the cloudy milky sweet and a Dreamsicle exists.
The Spiral no. 4: Dreamsicle is a video, ice, and reflective drawing installation, designed to be viewed from both within and outside the exhibition space. Utilizing the window as a threshold, Dreamiscle is a hermeneutical exploration of the slipperiness between memory-dreams and experience.
Inside: The video loops across the walls, artworks, and bodies, wrapping itself around the viewer. Inside, Dreamsicle is an abstract dimension where nothing is defined and forms melt into each other, coated in the projected video and its reflections and refractions.
Outside: The video is clear now. In the night air, the viewer can make out the moving blue forms of the video more concretely. Hands on ice: gliding, melting desire. It is the same ice that is melting inside, but now the separation is palpable as the viewer experiences Dreamsicle on the other side of the glass.
What is it to separate yourself from a looping projection? And is anything ever really separate? Or does the one-ness of instability endure? Is everything just a convergent reading of the same text with different lenses? Is that the dreamy tragic treat of it all? Mind and matter continue their ephemeral wave.
LOS ANGELES, CA
INTERDISCIPLINARY INSTALLATION
2025
Photos by Madeleine Rose
Dreamsicle
> Video, Drawing, Ice Installation by Emery Gluck
The Spiral is a series of interdisciplinary installations exploring the phenomena of spiraling.
The window is the mirror. The window is the painting. The window is the screen. The window is the threshold between the inner world and what surrounds it. The window is where two dualities meet at their edges, only to realize they are each other.
Like the treat of childhood where two opposite flavors are one, the icy translucent tart melts into the cloudy milky sweet and a Dreamsicle exists.
The Spiral no. 4: Dreamsicle is a video, ice, and reflective drawing installation, designed to be viewed from both within and outside the exhibition space. Utilizing the window as a threshold, Dreamiscle is a hermeneutical exploration of the slipperiness between memory-dreams and experience.
Inside: The video loops across the walls, artworks, and bodies, wrapping itself around the viewer. Inside, Dreamsicle is an abstract dimension where nothing is defined and forms melt into each other, coated in the projected video and its reflections and refractions.
Outside: The video is clear now. In the night air, the viewer can make out the moving blue forms of the video more concretely. Hands on ice: gliding, melting desire. It is the same ice that is melting inside, but now the separation is palpable as the viewer experiences Dreamsicle on the other side of the glass.
What is it to separate yourself from a looping projection? And is anything ever really separate? Or does the one-ness of instability endure? Is everything just a convergent reading of the same text with different lenses? Is that the dreamy tragic treat of it all? Mind and matter continue their ephemeral wave.
LOS ANGELES, CA
INTERDISCIPLINARY INSTALLATION
2025
Photos by Madeleine Rose