Note: Desert X 2017 is permanently closed. For more information please visit: Īdditional generous support provided by 303 Gallery. As Mirage pulls the landscape in and reflects it back out, this classic one-story suburban house becomes a framing device, a perceptual echo-chamber. As Mirage pulls the landscape in and reflects it back out, this classic one-story suburban house becomes a framing device, a perceptual echo-chamber endlessly bouncing between the dream of nature as pure uninhabited state and the pursuit of its conquest. With every available surface clad in mirror it both absorbs and reflects the landscape around in such ways that the exterior will seemingly disappear just as the interior draws the viewer into a never-ending kaleidoscope of light and reflection. When it comes to visiting this house, everything counts. ![]() The house reflects surroundings and offers a rather confusing disguise. Mirage is a ranch-style suburban American house. However, the crowds it attracted overwhelmed the Little Tuscany neighborhood. Mirage house was created as installation for the Desert X art festival, for which 16 artworks have been installed across the Coachella Valley. The Mirage house is covered in mirrors and perched over Palm Springs. ![]() The ranch-style structure suggests a latter-day architectural version of manifest destiny, a primary structure rendered by the artist without function service or texture. Palm Springs, CA It was a big hit during the 'Desert X' art show this spring. ![]() In the tradition of land-art as a reflection of the dreams and aspirations projected onto the America West, Mirage presents a continually changing encounter in which subject and object, inside and outside are in constant flux.
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