Still working with shattered mirror -photoshopped mirror and some shots of college hallways

Thinking of David Creedon and his photo collection - Ghosts of the Faithful Departed -
where he has a series of derelict and deserted houses, each giving the viewer a glimpse of an ordinary, everyday life that no longer exists. Homes and belongings that to the inhabitant were of great significance and importance now just left abandonded and unwanted. Very thought provoking, sad but beautiful images.








With this theme in mind I decided to experiment with a similar theme - old photos - family snaps - and place them so they were visible through the cracks in the mirror, to show that these moments can never be recreated (people have grown older, some have died, some of the particular locations don't even exist anymore) like the shattered mirror, can never be reassembled.

Working again with shattererd mirror - I scanned the mirror into computer, and then tried out different effects.  Some interesting results -

Drew design of shattered mirror onto mdf and marked out for cutting

After cutting -a very uninteresting jigsaw puzzle!

 

Made a vacuum mold of some of the pieces. Nice crisps lines,  I like the

gridlike background, good contrast to the smooth shapes of the pieces.

 

 

 

Reassembled the piece and glued it to card to print

 

 

 

Artists using mirrors in their work -

 

MIRIAM BACKTROM - Smile As If We Have Already Won

A 12 metre wide 'tapestry' of broken mirror fragments - an entry for Artes Mundi contemporary art prize at National Museum of Art in Cardiff (Oct 2012)

So many planes to look at - light and reflections really interesting.





ANISH KAPOOR - Islamic Mirror

Looks like multi layers - depth

 Casting workshop - working with wax

used a button for pattern, pressed into clay mould and then poured in hot wax - allowed to dry.

Mike Fox was telling me about a sculpture by Anthony Gormley, where he uses the kaleidoscope qualities of polished box stainless steel.

We experimented with similar tube of steel - I took shots through the tube, interesting effects - square facets instead of triangular.

Continuing with facets and fractured images as seen through the kaleidoscope, I have experiemented with shattered glass - facets - giving a distorted image/view.

Collecting multiple items that have a reflective quality and mounted them in a frame to suggest a mirror - the varying and different reflections give a distorted view.

 

 

John Dahlsen - Australian installation artist - Primary Installation

 

 

these works are digital photos on canvas on the wall and the floor piece is made up of

found plastics.

 

 

Taking photos around the college stairways and hallways through the  kaleidocscope.

 

 

 

Discoverd that areas with less colour make more interesting images through the kaleidoscope. Colour split into small facets and replicated just overwhelms the overall effect - windows, lighting and light areas result in better finished images, clearer, crisper and less cluttered.

 

 

Exploring other ways to achieve multi faceted images.

 

 Reflective squares mounted on a board, each with varying tilt to distort image.

Two way picture - two different images, view first at one angle and tilt to view the other.