How to see infinity by Theresa Rauh

Mirror is one of the most interesting surfaces. Sometimes it can make you embarrassed when you have to face yourself in it, but besides that it can have so much more functions. You may find it at the dentist, (where the reflection of yourself may not be that pretty) but is totally necessary, at car lambs, where it suits your safety or even in art where it can create virtual spaces and even infinity. Creating infinity is what the mirror effect does to my favorite piece at the museum of fine art. It is some mirror effect art by the artist McElheny.

It is actually a 3m*3m*1.5m large box in which are five pots on each side in the upper side of the box. There are mirrors located in the box, in a way, so that the pots are reflected over and over again. This gives the viewer the impression that the box is infinite, because as you look through it you don’t see any ending of pots.

If you look it at from the outside, which is covered with mirror surface as well, you see the reflection of yourself and don’t concentrate on the reflection, which happens inside, but as you come you see the infinity within the box. This is the thing, which really made me thing about this piece of art. It can be interpreted in many different ways. Everybody can make up his own interpretation out of that. For me it is that nothing always seems like it looks from the outside. You cannot only see something in one way or another. Things have to be getting to know, otherwise something is missed this for humans as well as other things and live situations.

This is what I really like about this piece. I have never seen something like that before. It is nor a sculpture but also neither a picture or painting. It is something different, which seems to make infinity, we always have trouble imagining, visible.