{"id":3332,"date":"2018-09-17T19:53:18","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T19:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christophermadden.uk\/wp\/?p=3332"},"modified":"2024-03-27T21:24:18","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T21:24:18","slug":"mirror-based-art-oxo-cube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/mirror-based-art-oxo-cube\/","title":{"rendered":"Mirror-based artwork &#8211; multiple reflections inside a cube creating the illusion of the word &#8220;OXO&#8221; in infinite regression"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophermadden.art\/mirror-images\/mirror-image-images\/contemporary-art-mirror-cube-oxo-4545.jpg\" alt=\"contemporary art infinity mirror cube multiple reflections\" title=\"contemporary art infinite reflections\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">OXO Cube infinity mirror cube<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mirrors, paper, acrylic.      March 2017<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a mirror-based artwork that uses the concept of infinity mirrors (which is a phenomenon I first became aware of while I was a student of maths and physics in the early 1970s).<br>The work consists of four mirrors forming the vertical walls of a cube, with the mirrored surfaces facing inwards. Each mirror reflects the mirror opposite it, including the reflections in that mirror, so the reflections build up to form infinite reflections (or, more accurately, multiple reflections, as the reflections gradually fade due to light loss).<br>Where two mirrors meet in the cube&#8217;s corners each mirror reflects the other corner mirror, creating a different set of multiple reflections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The design on the cube&#8217;s floor forms the abstract image below:<\/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\/oxo-cube-4521-base.jpg\" alt=\"contemporary mirror OXO Cube base\" title=\"contemporary art mirror cube reflections\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In each corner of the cube the abstract images are reflected in the mirrors to appear to form the word &#8220;OXO&#8221;.<br>Each of these words &#8220;OXO&#8221; is then reflected infinite times in the other mirrors in the cube.<br>This artwork is titled &#8220;OXO Cube&#8221;, as it&#8217;s just too good a title to ignore (The artwork is meant to contain an element of humour).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophermadden.art\/mirror-images\/mirror-image-images\/contemporary-art-mirror-cube-oxo-4521.jpg\" alt=\"contemporary art mirror cube\" title=\"contemporary art OXO Cube reflections\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A low viewpoint looking into the mirror cube, as below, shows the infinity mirror effect at its best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophermadden.art\/mirror-images\/mirror-image-images\/contemporary-art-mirror-cube-oxo-4493.jpg\" alt=\"contemporary art infinity mirror reflections in cube\" title=\"contemporary art infinite reflection OXO Cube\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Below: a video of the mirror cube.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:32px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div style=\"padding:75% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/926628634?badge=0&amp;autoplay=1&#038;loop=1&#038;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"OXO cube  mirror art\"><\/iframe><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OXO Cube infinity mirror cube Mirrors, paper, acrylic. March 2017 This is a mirror-based artwork that uses the concept of infinity mirrors (which is a phenomenon I first became aware of while I was a student of maths and physics in the early 1970s).The work consists of four mirrors forming the vertical walls of a [&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":[58,52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332"}],"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=3332"}],"version-history":[{"count":57,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8627,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332\/revisions\/8627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}