Machine Reflections are a series of sculptures from Safier's 2026 show, Machina Memoriae. The exhibition explores the uncertain space between memory and history and asks what accumulates, what erodes, ad what remains when we can no longer tell the difference.

The sculptures are afterimages: blurred, dimensional artifacts descended from a body of technical machine paintings shown in an earlier exhibition, where early renaissance underpainting techniques suspended the machines between emergence and dissolution. Cast now into form, the sculpture are what remains after act of conjuring: physical residue of an image summoned once, then summoned again. Retold from medium to medium, the afterimage begins to eclipse its source and ultimately becomes more real than the original.

Sited in the former Blake and Knowles Steam Pump Works, the exhibition draws its language from two competing archives: a 1911 machine catalog, and newspaper accounts of a state-sanctioned raid conducted that same year against the women who worked there. The catalog renders every machine in exhaustive technical detail. The women appear only in fragments, their presence mediated by the accounts of others. Working historiographically, this exhibition sketches an alternative map of the historical record, one imbued with the impermanence and uncertainty of memory.

Machina Memoriae reimagines the historical record as an unstable chain of retellings, suggesting that history, like memory, is not continuous or fully legible.