Reinterpretations begins with a French battle map—a historical record from the Franco-Prussian War, marking terrain, troop locations, and moments of conflict between France and Germany. At first glance, it’s a document of war. But shift your point of view, and it becomes something else entirely: an abstract field of lines, shapes, and color—its violence quieted, its purpose undone.

Layered above are echoes of the map’s original marks. Orange and blue plexiglass mirror troop positions; a green rod suggests the terrain; a brown T-square stands in for mountain ranges. Brass stencils recall notations, while yellow rods trace imagined movements.

At the center, a cluster of eyeglass lenses refracts and distorts. Through the lenses, rivers, borders, and towns dissolve into a kaleidoscope of fragments—form giving way to color, meaning to motion.

What once documented conflict now invites aesthetic reflection. Nothing has changed but the gaze. Meaning, after all, is a matter of where—and how—we choose to look.