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.
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.
As in a hall of mirrors, however, these examples also cast reflections back on to antiquity itself.
Aree and Naree Song Wongluekiet, twin sisters from Thailand, pause from hitting range balls and stand before a full-length mirror, applying sunscreen and casting reflections on their amazingly bright futures.
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.
The new statue of the famous American civil rights activist will stand in Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images 6.54pm GMT A house casts a reflection in the flood water in the village of Murtino, southeastern Macedonia.
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.
Another frequently cited physical characteristic is the inability to cast a reflection or shadow, which often translates into an inability to be photographed or recorded on film.
Worse, that someone might be my evil twin, or myself at a different age, or it might contain a mirror in which I would cast no reflection.
