Here's the second part of the reflecting series:
I've realized that I posted the picture of the other tile that goes with this one without saying anything about it. It's over here.
I am currently working on a series of
cameo engravings based on photographs that I am taking in museums around the
world. I find it interesting to watch the reflections of people in the glass
cases that hold objects in a museum; it seems to represent the museum system
itself, with our personal and cultural
self-perceptions interceding with the objects on display. I think that we are
incapable of looking at the objects through the eyes of the people who used
them, and often, we don't even notice that we project our own meaning onto
them. Our culture, like the glass, is invisible to us, except for certain
angles, and we can easily forget the influence that it has on our perceptions.
To translate these images from photos into engraved glass, the viewer, the
object being viewed, and the reflections become equalized, and the reflection is
made a part of the object itself. This one is the second of the series.
Labels: Cameo, Engraving, Fusing, Glass, Museums, Portraits, ReflectingProjecting, Thoughts
