anamorphosis and PROPS

Webster Dictionary, 1913

An`a*mor"pho*sis (#), n. [Gr. , fr. to form anew; again + to form; form.]

1. (Persp.) A distorted or monstrous projection or representation of an image on a plane or curved surface, which, when viewed from a certain point, or as reflected from a curved mirror or through a polyhedron, appears regular and in proportion; a deformation of an image.

Cake plates...

Taken from this
website


Two mirrors, each one of them consisting of 19 small mirrors, in the shape of spherical hubs, distributed uniformly on a circular plate. This plate is composed of a central glass and a wooden frame which surrounds it. The frames are painted with flowers, one of them having a red background, the other a green background.

These mirrors give 19 simultaneous virtual images of one object, the images being smaller than the actual object.

This makes me think of the "Presents"... eventhough they are sound/shadow boxes..


This apparatus has three flat mirrors, mounted vertically on a horizontal wooden board. The shape of this board is similar to a trapezium, the larger side slightly curved. The orientation of the mirrors accompanies the direction defined by the three smaller sides of the trapezium. The wooden board is painted with motifs representing a garden, with a fountain surrounded by flower beds.

When observed through the mirrors, the assemblage gives the observer the impression that the garden is composed of four identical fountains, each one constituting the centre of a garden identical to the one painted on the board.

This seemed somehow relevant,, in a weird way... "Bridezilla"


see video of it --> http://games.amctv.com/we_cakejump/
so strange :S

I took these around my neighbourhood.
Could be a reference to the clean vs. the grotesque.