{"id":4778,"date":"2021-08-03T08:46:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T08:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/?p=4778"},"modified":"2024-03-13T09:21:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T09:21:28","slug":"mirror-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/mirror-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Angled mirror art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art-images\/mirror-contemporary-art-P1002489-800w.jpg\" alt=\"Contemporary art reflections with angled mirrors\" title=\"Contemporary mirror art reflections\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Angled mirror piece<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Wood, acrylic, mirrors.   18x23x18cm.     June 2021<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A sculpture formed of two painted wood blocks placed between two mirrors at angles to each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike with most mirrors, which are vertical, the mirrors in this work are at 45 degrees to the horizontal, producing a reflection that includes the vertical axis rather than just the usual horizontal one.<br>I think that reflections on the verticle axis are inherently more interesting than those on the horizontal axis because they invert the image top to bottom rather than just flipping it right to left \u2013 a right to left reflection simply puts the right side to the left, with the only striking evidence of anything being unusual is when writing becomes back-to-front. Vertically reflected images however turn the whole world upsidedown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angled mirror piece Wood, acrylic, mirrors. 18x23x18cm. June 2021 A sculpture formed of two painted wood blocks placed between two mirrors at angles to each other. Unlike with most mirrors, which are vertical, the mirrors in this work are at 45 degrees to the horizontal, producing a reflection that includes the vertical axis rather than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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\/4778"}],"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=4778"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8204,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4778\/revisions\/8204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}