Allison Glazer

I think I know what my basic underlying ideas are in my project. The first is about the individualized experience that a person has with a reflection. The experience is personal and cannot be recreated. In order to show this idea in a project, I was thinking I could set up my mirrors in a public place (where people do not know that the mirrors are an art project). I would take pictures of the reflections I find in the mirrors and then I would have other people take pictures of what they see in the mirrors. I would show the contrast between my experience in the reflection as opposed to other peoples' experiences, who don't know what they're supposed to be seeing, or if they are even supposed to be seeing something in general.
The second nut is about the 2d/3d nature of the mirrors. The mirrors are reflecting a 3d space but within the mirror the space is 2d. It deals with the reality of space. I want to try doing something in a trompe l'oiel style to further change reality. I tried painting a curtain on the mirror so that when looking at the reflection, part is covered by the painted curtain. This deals with the idea of what is in front of what, what is real, etc. I am only putting up pictures of my second idea because I have not yet installed the mirrors in a public place to try out the first idea. The pictures in the blog show a curtain interacting with grass/nature and the concrete ground, which also brings about what is real and natural versus what is fake.