“Over the past six years, Spivak has been engaged with 18th-century alchemical practices, with a particular fascination for the way silver interacts with glass. While technical in its process, he finds its rigidity deeply poetic and surprisingly forgiving. The resulting surfaces are reflective, but imperfect - at first glance, they appear clouded, and even failed. Yet, with time, each surface begins to reveal its own distinct clarity and character. This unfolding mirrors the process of self-reflection: the longer we spend with our own image, the more layered and complex it becomes.”