Week 41: Oct. 13, 2024

Chromoplastic Mural, Luis Tomasello, Argentina, 2011 Bass wood and acrylic paint

Reflecting…

These wood blocks cover a large wall in the main hallway of the Block Building. They always fascinate me, and look a bit different from every angle.

What I have always enjoyed most is the extent to which the orange paint reflects off the white wall. None of it is positioned to show directly outward toward the eye of the observer. What you pick up of the orange is predominantly what you see as you approach it from the side, walking down the hallway, and what is reflected back out from the wall.

The other fascination here is that the piece is made of 672 identical geometric forms, but honestly, I have been looking at them for nine years and I don’t think they look identical. It drives me crazy. The form he has created is so intriguing that if you turn it one way or the other, it looks quite different.