Bicycle racks.

Since investigating the work of Olafur Eliasson, I decided to go around my space and take more pictures of reflective items. I found these intriguing bicycle racks on the college grounds. I took a series of photographs of these racks and the more I photographed them the more interested I became.

At first I was just engrossed in the texture and how the metal material reacted to light but after a few photos I became more interested in the shape of the racks. When looking through them, they reminded me of a vortex.

 As I said in my earlier post, the concept of a vortex is constantly coming up in the artists I review such as Robert Smithson "four sided vortex", the spiral staircase in the Vatican City and Olafur Eliassons "take your time" exhibit. I am now moving on to exploring a vortex.

Olafur Eliasson

After examining the work of Erika Craig I decided to review other artist who also incorporates water into their work. I was very interested in the work of Olafur Eliasson who created the “New York City waterfalls”. Four massive waterfalls were installed in the east river in 2008 with water pumped from the river. These massive pieces of work are incredibly inspiring; it made me want to investigate Eliassons work more.

 So I began by looking at some of Eliassons other work such as the “take your time" exhibit at P.S.1 which consisted of a very large tilted disc-shaped mirror suspended horizontally from a gallery ceiling. What strikes a person at first is the omniscient, bird’s-eye reflection of the room below, with the person standing in the middle of it. The mirror is rotating very slowly, and with a subtly undulating motion that causes the room itself feel warped and unstable.

When reviewing reflection work created by Eliasson I became very attracted to this piece from the take your time exhibit. This piece reminds me of a vortex. A lot of artist who I have been examining have related back to a vortex such as Robert Smithson’s "four sided vortex" and the Giuseppe momo spiral staircase in the Vatican City, Rome.