{"id":3943,"date":"2015-07-07T15:59:02","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T15:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/?p=3943"},"modified":"2024-03-13T10:44:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T10:44:50","slug":"coloured-rods-and-mirror-creating-colour-discontinuity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/coloured-rods-and-mirror-creating-colour-discontinuity\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflection in a mirror creating colour discontinuity"},"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-reflections-two-coloured-rods-2269.jpg\" alt=\"contemporary art - a mirror reflection creating optical illusion\" title=\"Contemporary art exploring ambiguity and perception\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Colour Discontinuity 1.     Coloured rods reflected in a mirror<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mirror, wooden rods, acrylic paint.    July 2015<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A coloured rod reflected in a mirror so that the reflection in the mirror coincides with a differently coloured rod on the other side of the mirror, creating a form of ambiguous optical illusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A study in perception, illusion and the interpretation of ambiguous visual stimuli.<br>I&#8217;ve been interested in mirrors and reflections since I was a teenager in the late 1960s. My <a href=\"http:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/sky-mirror-1970\/\">first mirror based work<\/a> was done at that time. It started a science based endeavour rather than an artistic one &#8211; involving the construction of an astronomical telescope, including the grinding of its primary parabolic mirror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colour Discontinuity 1. Coloured rods reflected in a mirror Mirror, wooden rods, acrylic paint. July 2015 A coloured rod reflected in a mirror so that the reflection in the mirror coincides with a differently coloured rod on the other side of the mirror, creating a form of ambiguous optical illusion. A study in perception, illusion [&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":[55,52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943"}],"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=3943"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8305,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943\/revisions\/8305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}