Desert x mirage house7/3/2023 ![]() “Last week I was there every day from 5 a.m. ![]() At night, the glowing reflection of nearby suburban homes flickers across the walls. ![]() Its angled mirrors refract the sepia tones and vibrant greens of the land as well as an endless expanse of sky, distorting and abstracting everything in view. But instead of being an actual home, the structure is an installation called “Mirage” by the artist Doug Aitken. ![]() Set into the side of a boulder-strewn mountain, overlooking the point where the city of Palm Springs, Calif., intersects with raw, untouched desert, sits an empty suburban ranch house clad entirely in mirrors - a kind of life-size kaleidoscope that blends landscape and sky.
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