"Our world is in constant flux"
August 3, 2016 1:05 PM   Subscribe

Vestige, a set of person-shaped mirrors placed in the Scottish woods, is one of the Reflective sculptures by U.K.-based artist Rob Mulholland.

The six male and female figures represent a vestige, a faint trace of the past people and communities that once occupied and lived in this space…They create a visual notion of non-space, a void, as if they are at one moment part of our world and then, as they fade into the forest, they become an intangible outline.
posted by Johnny Wallflower (6 comments total) 11 users marked this as a favorite
 
Very nice. But please tell me I'm not the only person who thought of the first Predator movie when I saw the sculptures....
posted by Archer25 at 1:22 PM on August 3, 2016 [3 favorites]


oh those wouldnt creep the shit out of me if i stumbled over them. at night. drunk.

but still totally cool.
posted by ShawnString at 1:24 PM on August 3, 2016


Yep, Predator leapt to mind for me too.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 1:28 PM on August 3, 2016


These are lovely and haunting. Since not at all a fan of horror, they reminded me more of the Green Man of the forest or woodsprites, also the ephemeral nature of our lives and the traces left behind on the land, just shadows of lives lived and dramas played out. Currently dealing with anxiety and depression, I feel like one of these shadow mirror people, the vibrant person I was so diminished to just a reflection of whom I was before.
posted by mermayd at 1:52 PM on August 3, 2016 [4 favorites]


These are really cool and eerie and actually are a pretty good argument for highly reflective camouflage?
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 4:01 PM on August 3, 2016


Haunting and funereal, yet, as beautiful as what surrounds it.
posted by Oyéah at 4:58 PM on August 3, 2016


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