Public Art

The Bean:

And selfies:

 

The Field - Sydney Australia art festival.

And selfies

The Sky Mirror - Rockefeller Plaza

And selfie:

Why we love the cloud and reflective art in general from Prosthetic Aesthetics:

It is this projection of our own distorted body onto the surface of the sculpture that makes work such as... Cloud Gate so appealing.... shiny, curved, and we see ourselves in them.

This visual Prosthetic channels the viewer’s world into three kinds of narcissism: of the individual (reflections of the individual’s body), of the collective (reflections of a distorted cityscape), and of the mind’s construct (reflecting the sculpture itself).  The massive success of the “Bean” suggests that this is what the public really wants to experience – a shiny, distant, and distorted version of itself.