{"id":4186,"date":"2018-09-15T16:00:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-15T16:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/?p=4186"},"modified":"2024-03-13T09:39:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T09:39:04","slug":"steel-eye-reflections-in-a-sphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/steel-eye-reflections-in-a-sphere\/","title":{"rendered":"Steel Eye &#8211; reflections in a sphere"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art-images\/contemporary-art-reflections-sphere-mirror-4322.jpg\" alt=\"steel sphere sculpture - reflections in a sphere\" title=\"reflection in steel ball resembling eyeball\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Steel Eye<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Steel ball on ink sketch.    13x13x2cm.      August 2018<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A study of reflections in a sphere.<br>A steel ball placed on a sketch pad in the centre of a radiating vein-like pattern. The reflections in the sphere give the effect of an eye-like form.<br>The work can be thought of as a study for a floor-based sculpture with a large steel sphere placed on a floor onto which the radiating vein-like lines are applied. It works very well at a small scale however, with the steel ball approximately the same size as a human eye. The intimate size of the small version makes this version quite unsettling, while a larger version would possibly be less unsettling but more visually intriguing (because the reflections in the ball wouldn&#8217;t invoke so precisely a human eye).<br>The initial concept came to me while working on a different project involving a steel ball (but not reflections) on a sheet of paper. I noticed that the reflection of the white paper and the room on the ball gave the impression of the white of an eye and the iris of the eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art-images\/contemporary-art-sphere-reflection-4313.jpg\" alt=\"sculpture - reflections in a sphere creating eyeball effect\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A close-up of the steel sphere, showing the reflection from the side<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art-images\/contemporary-art-sphere-reflection-4324.jpg\" alt=\"spherical reflection sculpture - steel sphere creating eyeball\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The sketch on the sketchpad, with the steel ball reflecting the pad and the room<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steel Eye Steel ball on ink sketch. 13x13x2cm. August 2018 A study of reflections in a sphere.A steel ball placed on a sketch pad in the centre of a radiating vein-like pattern. The reflections in the sphere give the effect of an eye-like form.The work can be thought of as a study for a floor-based [&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\/4186"}],"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=4186"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8229,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186\/revisions\/8229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}