{"id":3950,"date":"2017-03-07T19:24:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T19:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/?p=3950"},"modified":"2024-03-13T10:34:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T10:34:34","slug":"coloured-rods-and-a-mirror-used-to-question-the-interpretation-of-perception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/coloured-rods-and-a-mirror-used-to-question-the-interpretation-of-perception\/","title":{"rendered":"Illusion in a mirror &#8211; the interpretation of perception and the illusion of continuity"},"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-rods-mirrors-colour-discontinuity-3619.jpg\" alt=\"Contemporary art: an optical illusion reflection of colored rods in a mirror\" title=\"Contemporary art reflection in mirror to question perception\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Colour Discontinuity 3 &#8211; the illusion of continuity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Front surface mirror, wood, acrylic.     March 2017      20x20x14cm<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A colored rod reflected in a mirror, positioned so that the reflection of the rod 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 of ambiguous visual stimuli to question the nature of perception and the interpretation of reality through the visual illusion of continuity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The work is quite small and is intended to be viewed close up. Because of this the mirror used is a front surfce mirror (or first surface mirror), which is a mirror that is coated on the front rather than the back. As a result there are no ghost reflections caused by the thickness of the glass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve worked with mirrors since I was a teenager in the late 1960s, when I ground the parabolic mirror for an astronomical telescope that I&#8217;d constructed. I got it coated by Grubb Parsons, a telescope manufacturing company that constructed seriously large telescopes including the Isaac Newton telescope and the William Herschel telescope. I used that mirror in one of my early <a href=\"http:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/sky-mirror-1970\/\">mirror art experiments<\/a> in about 1970.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colour Discontinuity 3 &#8211; the illusion of continuity Front surface mirror, wood, acrylic. March 2017 20x20x14cm A colored rod reflected in a mirror, positioned so that the reflection of the rod coincides with another rod of a different color on the other side of the mirror, creating an ambiguous optical effect. A study of ambiguous [&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\/3950"}],"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=3950"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8286,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950\/revisions\/8286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}