{"id":4887,"date":"2022-07-02T19:50:54","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T19:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/?p=4887"},"modified":"2024-03-13T09:10:57","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T09:10:57","slug":"perception-challenging-artwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/perception-challenging-artwork\/","title":{"rendered":"Perception-challenging artwork"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art-images\/perceptually-challenging-artwork-0353-800w.jpg\" alt=\"Perception challenging contemporary artwork\" title=\"Perception-challenging contemporary artwork\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Shapes at the edge of perception<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Papier mache, acrylic, card. &nbsp; &nbsp;30x21cm. &nbsp; &nbsp;2021.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A wall hung artwork in which a matte black hemisphere protrudes from a flat matte black surface. Due to the darkness of the surface the protruding hemisphere is quite hard to see (although in this photograph it is lit in a way that makes it reasonably visible). Even less obvious than the protruding hemisphere, the matte black circle at the centre of the metallic area is actually a hemispherical indentation. This indentation is very rarely noticed by observers.<br>The work is an investigation into perception, optical illusions and expectation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shapes at the edge of perception Papier mache, acrylic, card. &nbsp; &nbsp;30x21cm. &nbsp; &nbsp;2021. A wall hung artwork in which a matte black hemisphere protrudes from a flat matte black surface. Due to the darkness of the surface the protruding hemisphere is quite hard to see (although in this photograph it is lit in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4887"}],"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=4887"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8189,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4887\/revisions\/8189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}