Among my recent plastic acquisitions is a substantial mirrored sheet. The grandkids like to see their fun house reflections as it is all bendy. It’s an old notion and applied to exhaustion, but I decided to see what the camera would catch reflected in it.
I’m thinking of hauling a smaller version of the sheet around with me.
That is really weird!
Jay,
I’m thinking flamingos and interesting aspects of the carnal. Hmmm, what a combo.
June has it pegged. I think Anish Kapoor’s reflective sculptures, like Cloud Gate, are fantastic, although I’ve never seen one in person. Jay, with your flexible sheet, perhaps you could work out a way to make it interactive, or maybe just changing in time via motor drive.
Birgit:
Even though I tend to be characterized here as a sculptor, almost everything that I post is photographic in one sense or another. Is this where my true love resides? Naw. But it would be good to find something to pursue in the field that hasn’t been named as yet. You will find at least a dozen different photography magazines at the book store, and this represents a small corner of the overall domain, so identifying a novelty won’t happen. But I plan to do more with the distorted reflections as they can have something to do with sculpture.
June:
I saw a baboon catch and eat a flamingo. That’s pretty carnal.
Steve:
Not sure I know how Anish Kapoor gets that shine, but he is reflecting something in Indian culture. You may be aware of a series of grottoes in which patient and industrious monks have polished the walls to a fine optical degree. Makes me think of A Passge To India, but I may be wrong.
I was going to do something like that with the sheet for the entertainment of the grandkids. Push something around the back that would bump out the front surface. But there’s enough of my junk around Brockley and more is not necessarily welcome.