'Mirror my balanced Buddha in me', 2022 (photo: Hans-Georg Gaul). Colourful panes of silvered, handblown glass are arranged to suggest transparent, overlapping circles and ellipses. For the last decade, Olafur has been creating glass works and watercolours inspired by the themes of colour, transparency, and layering – the simplest means for achieving a non-representational illusion of depth and movement in two dimensions. The titles for these works were inspired by the similarity between their compositions of circles and ellipses and historical paintings of buddhas seated in front of mandalas. In this sense, the balanced, symmetrical works present an abstract, reduced image for contemplation.