Humans need the supernatural — gods and demons, etc. — external abstractions to put our existences into perspective and form standards, ethics, to generate approval to survive.
We credit them with good fortune, with misfortune, we make them moral, amoral, and we are intimidated, and impressed. They are above and beyond us, impossible to transcend, and yet they are essential because we channel them to look back upon and examine ourselves.
In Marcel Mauss' "Essai sur le don. Forme et raison de l'échange dans les sociétés archaïques (The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies), 1925", critique of utilitarianism, he explores the structures of giving, of receiving, and, most importantly, reciprocation, and reveals that they are spiritual transmissions, and therefore tangible a vernacular mapping of the border exchange between spirit and matter. Gifting pervades and binds all aspects of society.
People give to things, things give to people, and the metaphysical is exchanged. In this installation three pairs of pair of mirrors were installed: one mirror has a light bulb, and the other is an identical facing mirror without a light bulb. Both "see" each other but neither sees. Another pair is threaded by a ribbon, and yet another has a light bulb emerging from it.