Ruby Bailey’s Infinity Paintings are interactive wall-based works that explore impermanence, arrangement, and the poetics of material form. Composed from laser-cut steel, finished in mirrored, matte, or high-gloss surfaces, they incorporate magnetic elements that can be continually repositioned. Each work is designed to remain open and unfixed, shifting over time through touch and interaction.
The magnetic components are printed with diaristic fragments: collected sketches, altered photographs, and visual notations drawn from Bailey’s lived and observed environment. These layered pieces act as a kind of personal archive, holding the residue of passing encounters, moments, and textures. Across the series, this visual language is recomposed through touch, creating an evolving surface of gesture and reflection.
Language is cut directly into the steel: some words remain intact, others erode into ghostlike outlines. Phrases are suggestive rather than declarative, open to interpretation, memory, and mood.
While sculptural in form, the Infinity Paintings retain the intimacy of drawing and the spatial sensibility of painting. They invite tactile engagement and quiet attention, offering not fixed compositions, but mutable frameworks for presence, perception, and recollection.
