Robert Smithson - Yucatan Mirror Displacements
- kittycolesss
- Apr 27, 2020
- 1 min read
This is the interpretation on the on the Guggenheims website. I think it's a bit long winded, but does summarise it well in coherence with Smithsons' career. My personal interpretation of the work is more the how the mirrors create new viewpoints of the work, when you look closer you see yourself immersed in nature, but when you get a different angle, you see the back of the plant, or the sky and the mirrors bring all these elements together. I think also they create a beautiful naturally formed compositional element to both in photographic form and what I can imagine in the moment also. They mention the term land art, and I think this would be a really interesting way to develop my work, since I have been looking at my natural surrounding environment, and how people look at it. It would be fun experimenting with putting my work in the surrounding environment and seeing how it reacts, as well as looking at pattern and composition.
Original site and the non-site
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