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Let’s continue by identifying some of the work most riddled by the possibility of not being seen. Find There, that is the power and Fluorescent Lights. Reuben Lorch-Miller’s fluorescent light fixture replicas appear as the everyday objects that they are meant to represent. Through the extent of mimicry employed in their making, however, they heighten your sense of what we actually stop noticing about things when we take them for being ordinary. The soundtrack to this piece, the continuous hum of the artist imitating the hum of a fluorescent light, is more likely to catch your attention than the fixtures themselves. Is this hum figurative? Is this akin to representing a shadow cast across a table? In a similar way, Nick Normal wants to call your attention to the existing infrastructure of the Flux Factory building itself by exposing and imitating the miscellaneous circuitry that has been implemented to make the place work. In a sense, this piece is more an act of pointing than an act of creating. It takes on a reverent tone as it asserts its own non-intervention. Both of these pieces want you to step closer to them. They dwell in that visually mundane territory that is still steeped with the possibility of revelation – the work is not concerned with how it looks really, but that it incites a keener sense of appreciation and observation in the looker.