"Despite appearances to the contrary, the establishment of order and the dissolution of what has been established are at bottom beyond human control. The secret is that only that which can destroy itself is truly alive."

C.G. Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, 1944

Analysis of Momentary Structures is a personal meditation on the mysteries of the psyche that lead us to suicide, and the ever present statistics that this potent experience is being reduced to in a world needing a rational answer, for what it considers an irrational act. The work takes its title from a type of statistical analysis used to correlate childhood stress and cognitive processes that could potentially lead to someone committing suicide .

In this installation, the fragile and luminous soap bubble, reminiscent of youth and innocence, is brought against the video camera lens, acting as an observing mirror and an ultimate limit. Here images of soap bubbles floating and shimmering in the light, some of them eventually destroying themselves against the camera lens as others float by unscathed, are superimposed on computer generated images of minimal surface structures of soap bubbles along with suicide statistics from a database in real time. The rupture of the soap bubbles reveals the mathematical minimal structures and statistics, which in turn give way to more soap bubbles. As the real soap bubbles float to their destiny, they encounter their mathematical, statistical counterparts, which have been used to attempt to comprehend their essence. The collision results in both rupture and transcendence, as all three, the soap bubbles, the computer generated minimal surface structures emulating soap bubbles and the statistical analyses, are all momentary structures. As the images surface on to the screen, they are accompanied by sounds generated from brain wave patterns, reiterating the surfacing of unconscious aspects of psyche in to our physical awareness. The pace of the flow of bubbles is directly manipulated by touching or blowing upon a large, touch sensitive "bubble wand" that is attached to the projection surface as human play becomes the moderator of this fragile experience.