In Upon Reflection, Peta Minnici refines the genre of still life into a meditation on perception, impermanence, and the metaphysical properties of light. Set within austere, white-walled spaces and positioned on reflective surfaces, glass vessels and transparent forms become conduits for light’s transformation — refracting, dispersing, and dissolving their own edges. What appears solid begins to waver, inviting the viewer into a state of visual and psychological suspension.

These meticulously rendered compositions are not simply observational studies; they are propositions about seeing — about the slippage between materiality and illusion, presence and absence. Through restraint and precision, Minnici creates spaces where silence resonates, and the poetic emerges from the minimal.

Continuing her exploration of domestic space as a site of spiritual and emotional weight, Upon Reflection proposes a quiet reverence for the ephemeral — where light becomes both medium and subject, and reflection becomes a portal between worlds.

— Peta Minnici, 2022