{"id":3947,"date":"2015-07-07T19:15:04","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T19:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/?p=3947"},"modified":"2024-03-13T10:44:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T10:44:20","slug":"coloured-rods-aligned-with-a-mirror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/coloured-rods-aligned-with-a-mirror\/","title":{"rendered":"Mirror illusion"},"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-discontinuous-2280.jpg\" alt=\"Contemporary art - mirror reflection producing optical illusion effect\" title=\"Contemporary art illusion using ambiguous reflection in mirror\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Colour Discontinuity 2.     Optical illusion in mirror.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mirror, coloured wooden rods.     March 2017<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A coloured rod reflected in a mirror, positioned so that the reflection in the mirror coincides with another rod of a different color on the other side of the mirror, creating an ambiguous optical effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A study in the perception and interpretation of ambiguous visual stimuli annd illusions.<br>The study of reflections and their interpretation (especially illusions)is a common theme of my work. I have been fascinated by mirrors for most of my adult life, starting as a teenager in the late 1960s when I ground the parabolic mirror of an astronomical telescope that I constructed (It was an eight and a half inch mirror).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colour Discontinuity 2. Optical illusion in mirror. Mirror, coloured wooden rods. March 2017 A coloured rod reflected in a mirror, positioned so that the reflection in the mirror coincides with another rod of a different color on the other side of the mirror, creating an ambiguous optical effect. A study in the perception and interpretation [&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\/3947"}],"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=3947"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8304,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947\/revisions\/8304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}