School of Athens

A laser cut mirror paraphrasing the renaissance painting by Rafael with the same name.

Where do you draw the line between an object of art and one of design? Is it enough to just add a function to an artifact, or is there another way of deciding what is what? Had this object been something else if it didn’t cast a reflection?

The School of Athens Mirror plays with our conception of the functional object by drawing a not-so-subtle reference to one of the most famous representations of “high art” in modern culture and gifting it with the ability to reflect both its surroundings and the people in it.