2006. 

Mixed media, 11.25 x 5.25 x 2.125 inches.

"Eclipses" is a monochromatic cabinet dealing with the illusions of love. 

It is wrapped in an antique vellum with an embossed spider web motif. 

The man in the upper half of the front of the piece (barely visible here, but defined by the uppermost gold ring) hovers over the woman below, watching. 

He has so charmed her with his words of love she has literally become one with his poem--line for line, she has disappeared inside of his sonnet. 

The interior of the cabinet is also lined with layers of words upon words, and mirrors above and below reflect those words forever. 

The marbles sitting below are either  covered in words or clear--as clear as crystal balls that foretell the future. 

While holding the cabinet, the viewer is able to manipulate the spheres because they are the only things that can move freely in the cabinet, making our heroine  that much more  imprisoned. 

On the verso, the woman has broken free of the poem, but in doing do, has become a jumble of words only barely legible. 

Which is better--a life of order without freedom or a life of freedom without order?