The tool
Accessible complexity
Mirror Lab’s simple interface generated kaleidoscopic imagery from photographs at speed. Accessibility as a design philosophy: complexity for everyone.
Digital art · Experimental study · 2019–2023
Mirror Lab Sketches
Photographs, folded by symmetry into pattern: an early investigation into algorithmic repetition.
2019–2023Year
Digital art seriesType
Mirror Lab · photographyMedium
Vivid colours, intricate patterns and dynamic sequences generated through Mirror Lab: an early investigation into algorithmic repetition, bilateral symmetry and the emotional register of digital pattern-making.
One photograph, many mirrors
Same street. Four folds.
1
Photograph
An ordinary object or building, taken as it is.
2
Mirror
Bilateral symmetry and kaleidoscopic repetition fold the image.
3
Pattern
Order appears out of chaos, with an uncanny emotional charge.
Before and after
Drag to fold the image.
Move the handle to compare the plain photograph with its mirrored version.
PhotographMirroredPhotographMirroredChapter 1
Buildings, folded.
Facades, glass roofs and courtyards turned into symmetrical ornament.
Chapter 2
Mandalas.
Circular symmetry from stone, wood and metal textures: architecture as a mandala.
Chapter 3
Colour.
Flowers, fabric and paint pushed into saturated, kaleidoscopic form.
Chapter 4
Glitch and swirl.
When the tool breaks: liquefied surfaces, waves and spirals.
The thinking
Pattern, symmetry and the digital gaze.
Mirror Lab Sketches are an early investigation into AI-adjacent image creation. They predate the generative AI wave and mark the path from manual digital tools toward full image synthesis.
The trajectory
From Mirror Lab to Midjourney
Each tool in this lineage is a step toward AI-generated imagery, where the archive of human visual culture becomes the training set.
Emotional register
Order out of chaos
The work aims for a strong response: movement, energy and an uncanny sense of order created by mathematical symmetry.