{"id":2717,"date":"2016-11-18T09:34:53","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T09:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weirderthanyouthink.wordpress.com\/?p=2717"},"modified":"2024-03-13T10:41:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T10:41:12","slug":"contemporary-art-mirrors-reflected-cord-forming-a-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/contemporary-art-mirrors-reflected-cord-forming-a-circle\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemporary art: mirrors + multiple reflections = optical illusions."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"464\" src=\"http:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/contemporary-art-mirrors-paracord-2552.jpg\" alt=\"contemporary art mirrors and multiple reflections illusion\" class=\"wp-image-3511\" title=\"mirrors and illusion\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/contemporary-art-mirrors-paracord-2552.jpg 700w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/contemporary-art-mirrors-paracord-2552-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reflections and illusions.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mirrors, fluorescent cord.     2017<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>An example of one of my contemporary art projects exploring mirrors, reflections and illusions, here using a piece of cord that is reflected multiple times to give the impression of a closed circle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This work consists of three mirrors arranged as a triangular box with the reflective surfaces facing inwards. The box is placed over a length of brightly coloured meandering paracord. The cord is laid so that the section that lies inside the triangular box is reflected on the box&#8217;s sides to give the illusion of forming a circle. The second photo shows the work from a different angle to show the structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/christophermadden.art\/mirror-images\/mirror-image-images\/contemporary-art-mirror-box-coloured-cord-2554.jpg\" alt=\"mirrors and optical illusions in contemporary art\" class=\"wp-image-100\" title=\"contemporary art - mirrors and illusion\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"440\" src=\"http:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/contemporary-art-mirrors-illusion-2-2553.jpg\" alt=\"mirrors and optical illusion in contemporary art\" class=\"wp-image-100\" title=\"contemporary art - mirrors and illusion\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/contemporary-art-mirrors-illusion-2-2553.jpg 700w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/contemporary-art-mirrors-illusion-2-2553-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflections and illusions. Mirrors, fluorescent cord. 2017 An example of one of my contemporary art projects exploring mirrors, reflections and illusions, here using a piece of cord that is reflected multiple times to give the impression of a closed circle. This work consists of three mirrors arranged as a triangular box with the reflective surfaces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2717"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8298,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717\/revisions\/8298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}