Total Reflective Abstraction

"Endlessly Repeating Twentieth Century Modernism" by Josiah McElheny is a hand blown mirrored glass, low iron, and transparent mirror, instalation at the Donald young Gallery

"If you sit down and reflect on a philosophical idea, you enter a certain kind of state in your mind. If you look at a reflective object and become involved with looking at it, your mind enters a very similar kind of state. So looking at a reflective object and reflecting on an idea might be very similar experiences. My idea was that this could become a metaphor for how art worked, because basically it’s looking at an object and reflecting an idea."(entire interview at the pbs site)

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