{"id":3931,"date":"2016-10-07T14:33:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T14:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/?p=3931"},"modified":"2024-03-13T10:41:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T10:41:39","slug":"metamorphosis-of-a-hand-into-a-sinister-life-form-by-multiple-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/metamorphosis-of-a-hand-into-a-sinister-life-form-by-multiple-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Metamorphosis of a hand into a sinister life-form by multiple reflection"},"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\/alien-hand-mirror-reflection-2537.jpg\" alt=\"contemporary art - metamorphosis of a hand into sinister alien life-forms by reflection\" title=\"contemporary art - metamorphosis of a hand into an alien by multiple reflection\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Metamorphosis: reflection of a hand into an alien creature<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mirrors and hand.     October 2016<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Three mirrors forming the vertical sides of a triangular box turn a hand into an alien creature by multiple reflections. The hand is intruding into the box through an opening in the corner.<br>The artwork is an exploration of how a familiar object (a hand) can be transformed into something completely alien purely by the use of simple mirrors.<br>A study of the familiar becoming unfamiliar via a mundane agency. When the fingers of the hand move the effect is surprisingly disturbing (I&#8217;ll make a video of it when I can).<\/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\/alien-hand-mirror-reflection-2534.jpg\" alt=\"Contemporary art exploring illusion using reflection. Mirrors in modern art\" title=\"Contemporary art using mirrors to create unfamiliar forms - an alien hand\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metamorphosis: reflection of a hand into an alien creature Mirrors and hand. October 2016 Three mirrors forming the vertical sides of a triangular box turn a hand into an alien creature by multiple reflections. The hand is intruding into the box through an opening in the corner.The artwork is an exploration of how a familiar [&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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931"}],"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=3931"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8299,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions\/8299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}