Lea Porsager's (b. 1981, Denmark) prismatic Chakra Mills bring together different technologies and symbolic systems: the water mill and New Age references to chakras, tarot, and numerology. Each mill corresponds to a specific energy center. They are not designed to turn or function mechanically; rather, they originate from a larger body of work in which everything is frozen, paralyzed, and numb.

This work sits in the slipstream of Porsager’s longstanding fascination with wheels, turbines, and mills – technologies of circulation, transformation, and energy. Together, the Chakra Mills extend her ongoing exploration of movement, power, and symbolic systems, while suspending these forces in a state of arrested motion.