{"id":2783,"date":"2016-11-24T09:18:03","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T09:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weirderthanyouthink.wordpress.com\/?p=2783"},"modified":"2024-03-13T10:40:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T10:40:43","slug":"contemporary-art-mirror-based-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/contemporary-art-mirror-based-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Mirror based art with reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophermadden.art\/mirror-images\/mirror-image-images\/contemporary-art-mirror-reflections-screws-2250.jpg\" alt=\"Mirror based contemporary art reflections\" title=\"Contemporary art - mirrors with screws\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A study of reflections using mirrors and screws<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mirrors, screws.\u00a0    March 2017<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A study of reflections using mundane everyday objects to create interesting multiple reflections.<br>Here ordinary hardware screws are arranged to form a dynamic expansive configuration.<br>Screws lend themselves to this study partly because of their physically dynamic shape &#8211; large at one end and then tapering away at the other &#8211; and partly because of their intended purpose, which is to hold things in place &#8211; the exact opposite of dynamic expansiveness &#8211; which brings a slight touch of paradox to the work.<br>If anyone looking at the image feels that I ought to have lined up the screw heads, it&#8217;s a deliberate act not to have aligned them, even though in real life I am an obsessive screw head aligner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophermadden.art\/mirror-images\/mirror-image-images\/contemporary-art-mirror-reflections-screws-from-above-2253.jpg\" alt=\"Mirror based contemporary art reflections\" title=\"Contemporary art reflections mirrors\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study of reflections using mirrors and screws Mirrors, screws.\u00a0 March 2017 A study of reflections using mundane everyday objects to create interesting multiple reflections.Here ordinary hardware screws are arranged to form a dynamic expansive configuration.Screws lend themselves to this study partly because of their physically dynamic shape &#8211; large at one end and then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8,16],"tags":[52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783"}],"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=2783"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8297,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783\/revisions\/8297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}