Mirrors (from catalogs) 2002-2007
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Mirrors (from catalogs) 2002-2007 |
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Mirrors were taken directly from mail-order
catalogs and brochures displaying idealized room suites. I scanned the mirrors,
isolating them from their surroundings, and digitally skewed them back into
a flat perspective, to bring them into the space of the viewer. I have enlarged
the images to the dimensions of the actual size of the mirror being sold
in the catalog. The Mirrors are then mounted face forward to non-glare
laser-cut plexi-glass and hung on the wall as a real mirror would. While
the mirrors in these catalogs serve to locate the viewer within the space
by reflecting what would be behind him/her, all the seductive trappings arranged
in mirror's reflection become surrogates for the missing reflection of the
viewer - the viewer witnesses his/her own disappearance and replacement by
sellable objects.
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