At the Museum of Fine Arts last night to film a performance by Ghost Train Orchestra as part of the MFA’s courtyard concert series. Unfortunately, it rained so the event was held indoors, but it was an amazing concert nonetheless. Special thanks to Jasmine, Nick, PJ, and the rest of the MFA crew for making it an easy shoot for us.
Had a few minutes to wander the museum before soundcheck and stumbled onto this piece by Josiah McElheny. It looks like a digital animation, but it’s actually glass sculptures. Mirrors on all sides of the glass case and a one-way mirror facing the audience create the illusion that the sculptures extend infinitely. Thinking of building a much larger one to shoot a music video in…
The piece is titled Endlessly Repeating Twentieth Century Modernism. Here’s the MFA’s blurb about the piece, “McElheny hand-blew the dozens of glass vessels in this perfectly machined, mirrored box, basing them on 20th-century designs. Their glinting reflections recede in an infinitely repeating pattern. The work is inspired by an enclosed and completely reflective world of pure form imagined by architect Buckminster Fuller and scultpor Isamu Noguchi in 1929. By crafting a version of their idea, McElheny reveals what a world purged of human presence and individuality looks like. Though brimming with beautiful objects, it is a place apart, devoid of life.”
