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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsLucid Stead: A Transparent Cabin Built of Wood and Mirrors
Part architectural intervention and part optical illusion, Lucid Stead is a recently unveiled installation by artist Phillip K Smith III in Joshua Tree, California. The artist modified an existing 70-year-old homesteader shack by introducing mirrors to create the illusion of transparency, as the structure now takes on the lighting characteristics of anything around it. LED lighting and other custom electronic components were further installed within the buildings interior to illuminate from the interior at night. Smith says of the installation, Lucid Stead is about tapping into the quiet and the pace of change of the desert. When you slow down and align yourself with the desert, the project begins to unfold before you. It reveals that it is about light and shadow, reflected light, projected light, and change.
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Lucid Stead: A Transparent Cabin Built of Wood and Mirrors (Original Post)
n2doc
Nov 2013
OP
I've been saying for a long time that we should paint images of trees on our ugly buildings
Ace Acme
Dec 2013
#5
I don't see a reflection of the photographer/camera in that first shot ...
eppur_se_muova
Dec 2013
#7
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)1. Many more pics of it at this site
http://www.viralnova.com/mirror-cabin/
you could get a serious eyeball burn approaching it from the sun side...
Most creative, for sure.
you could get a serious eyeball burn approaching it from the sun side...
Most creative, for sure.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)3. How cool! nt
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)4. You post the coolest stuff. K&R
Ace Acme
(1,464 posts)5. I've been saying for a long time that we should paint images of trees on our ugly buildings
Plant trees and put mirrors on the buildings would be better
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)6. Somebody's gonna need a whole lot of Windex...
Very creative.
eppur_se_muova
(36,227 posts)7. I don't see a reflection of the photographer/camera in that first shot ...
how do you suppose that was done ?
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)8. Hope it's on private land, or illuminated all the time.
Otherwise someone's going to drive a dune buggy right through it.
Joe Shlabotnik
(5,604 posts)9. I was thinking,
that I could see myself driving my truck through it in broad day light, skidding home from work, after happy hour on a Friday.
Xyzse
(8,217 posts)10. I'd enjoy looking at that for a good five minutes.
Then I'd have to turn away due to eye strain.