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35 Reflective Sculptures By This Artist That Become Part Of The Landscape
A sculpture that looks completely different depending on the season, the weather, or even the time of day sounds like something out of science fiction. But that's essentially how Rob Mulholland's mirrored sculptures work, and they've been quietly standing in forests and open landscapes across the UK, changing without ever being touched.
What makes Mulholland's work especially striking is that no two visits to the same sculpture look alike. Snow, fog, autumn color, or a low winter sun all change what the mirrors show, meaning the landscape itself becomes part of the artwork, constantly rewriting it.
Scroll through to see how these reflective sculptures transform across the seasons, and why they've become such an unusual, ongoing collaboration between one artist and the land itself.
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Ghostchaplain16 2 hours ago
My first thought if I came upon this at night is to run away like Barney Rubble, with my feet spinning trying to get traction. Later, I might ask myself if I just missed Jesus taking another stroll. (That last one might scare me more!)
Mulholland is a Scottish sculptor and environmental artist who builds his figures out of reflective, mirrored surfaces instead of the usual stone, bronze, or wood. Rather than depicting a landscape, his sculptures absorb it, reflecting the trees, sky, and shifting light around them, often so convincingly that visitors walk right past without realizing there's a sculpture there at all. His most well-known series, Vestige, places six human-shaped mirrored figures in a Scottish forest that was once farmland, meant as a quiet trace of the people who lived there long before the trees did. It's a concept he's returned to elsewhere too, using mirrors to conjure dwellings and figures tied to the history of whatever site he's working in.
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Grace Sssssss 1 hour ago
Interesting how the woman figure's n****e was prominent but no male anatomy was featured to such a degree. And while all the genders had some wooden poses, the male figures were the only ones with more individualistic poses--arms outstretched, navel gazing, etc., and the women figures were just...there. Objects. Unconscious bias on the artist's part, I suspect.
Grace Sssssss 1 hour ago
Interesting how the woman figure's n****e was prominent but no male anatomy was featured to such a degree. And while all the genders had some wooden poses, the male figures were the only ones with more individualistic poses--arms outstretched, navel gazing, etc., and the women figures were just...there. Objects. Unconscious bias on the artist's part, I suspect.
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