reflection
One of three photographic partial views of "Endlessly Repeating Twentieth Century Modernism", Josiah McElheny, 2007. Blown mirrored glass, mirrors, metal, wood, and electric lighting. Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
Curator's description: "McElheny hand-blew the dozens of glass vessels in this perfect machined, mirrored box, basing them on 20th-century designs. Their glinting reflections reed in an infinitely repeating pattern. The work is inspired by an enclosed and completely reflective world of pure form imagined by architect Buckminster Fuller and sculptor Isamu Noguchi in 1929. By crafting a version of their idea, McElheny reveals what a world purged of human presence and individuality looks like. Though brimming with beautiful objects, it is a place apart, devoid of life."
As I recall, the box is square, maybe a cube, about 2m on a side, with windows all around, containing various arrangements of bottles, with the tallest maybe about 0.3m. _0706h
reflection
One of three photographic partial views of "Endlessly Repeating Twentieth Century Modernism", Josiah McElheny, 2007. Blown mirrored glass, mirrors, metal, wood, and electric lighting. Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
Curator's description: "McElheny hand-blew the dozens of glass vessels in this perfect machined, mirrored box, basing them on 20th-century designs. Their glinting reflections reed in an infinitely repeating pattern. The work is inspired by an enclosed and completely reflective world of pure form imagined by architect Buckminster Fuller and sculptor Isamu Noguchi in 1929. By crafting a version of their idea, McElheny reveals what a world purged of human presence and individuality looks like. Though brimming with beautiful objects, it is a place apart, devoid of life."
As I recall, the box is square, maybe a cube, about 2m on a side, with windows all around, containing various arrangements of bottles, with the tallest maybe about 0.3m. _0706h