David Kordansky Gallery's 2023 exhibition Mind's Eye by Deana Lawson stands as a testament to Lawson's endurance as a conduit for ancestral presence within this new iteration of work. The collection spans speculative truths, captured in frames that breathe life into methodologies and Lawson's distinct logic. Centered on the often overlooked beauty of domestic Black life, the exhibition bridges the menial to the effervescent in both subjects and landscapes. The exhibition's fluidity endows each work with a cinematic quality, as the audience floats through, capturing glimpses of themselves and the world Lawson brings to light in the metallic frames. In this way, Lawson, her audience, and her subjects are collaged and collected among one another-creating a collision of dimensions where all represented identities intersect. The work then spills out in the form of handblown glass elements. This intentionality saturates the exhibition with the radiance of the iridescent sheens found in the aerial depictions of solar farms. Lawson's eyes become a tool for not just beauty but transcendence as the composition is the captured strata of human life in its personal, private, and expansive dimensions. The cropped family photos, Mayan effigy, elephant figurines, and crystals serve as connective tissue to bridge the past to the present. This distance and pacing urge the audience to embody and meditate on the future as Lawson dictates the portals. The familiarity of the scenes places viewers in a position to insert themselves into a long-standing legacy, alongside Lawson, within their past, present, and future.