As in a hall of mirrors, however, these examples also cast reflections back on to antiquity itself.
What is striking about it -- as with many of Mr. Gussow's sculptures -- is its mirrorlike finish, which casts reflections from all directions as the spectator moves around it.
The mirrored sequins on a Chanel dress cast reflections that flit across the walls like mischievous wraiths, and you may even detect a hint of "Harvey" (1950) — in which Jimmy Stewart was best friends with an invisible rabbit — as the doors of a hotel elevator open and close to let through a nonexistent guest.
In the damson-and-gold-leaf confines of the sitting room, a mesmeric video installation by Pipilotti Rist (who spent a year in Bruton as a pilot artist-in-residence), casts reflections on a giant chandelier created from glass found on a rubbish tip and strung so that shadows glide across an unpainted wall.
When George recounts his decision to put his newborn son, who had Down's syndrome, directly into an institution, because "it casts reflection... unfavorable to my image," Tom chimes in, "You lose the mongoloid vote".
A semitransparent fun-house mirror casts strange reflections.
Winter and summer, sunlight casts dappled reflections from the pond onto the living and dining room ceilings.
Eliasson had designed an intricate web of light cable — its geometric pattern a mathematical translation of how ripples move — which was draped over the face of the Grassi and cast silver reflections onto the water.
The Home Café print ads show a machine on a counter, casting a reflection of a coffeehouse rather than of itself, above the headline "The coffeehouse has finally come home".
The camera or cell phone is placed on the shiny surface of a table that takes up the foreground (the full bottom half of the screen) and casts phantom reflections of Romney and the doings elsewhere in the room.
