{"id":3015,"date":"2011-09-08T23:20:11","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T04:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/?p=3015"},"modified":"2014-12-14T20:09:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T01:09:06","slug":"distorted-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/08\/distorted-reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"Distorted Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3017\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2004-glass-bricks.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3017\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3017\" title=\"fredhatt-2004-glass-bricks\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2004-glass-bricks.jpg?resize=550%2C550\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2004-glass-bricks.jpg?w=550 550w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2004-glass-bricks.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2004-glass-bricks.jpg?resize=300%2C300 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3017\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Glass Bricks, 2004, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m feeling a bit oversaturated these days, both by the incessant rain we&#8217;ve been having in the Northeastern states, and by the relentless media focus on the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001.&nbsp; If you&#8217;re interested in a long-time New Yorker&#8217;s look back at that event and its cascading effects over the past decade, look at my post from last year, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/09\/signs-in-the-aftermath\/\" target=\"_blank\">Signs in the Aftermath<\/a>.&#8221;&nbsp; For now, I&#8217;d rather distract myself and my readers with shiny things.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3018\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2003-insistent-squares.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3018\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3018\" title=\"fredhatt-2003-insistent-squares\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2003-insistent-squares.jpg?resize=450%2C600\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2003-insistent-squares.jpg?w=450 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2003-insistent-squares.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3018\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Insistent Squares, 2003, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I live in a city of glass and steel and plastic, colored electric lights and glittering curves and facets.&nbsp; The quadrangular grid is the fundamental pattern of the city, rigid, regular, and inhuman.&nbsp; But the grid is only the substructure for a culture of remarkable frenzy and chaos.&nbsp; Chaos manifests in the pure optics of grids of reflective materials, as the inevitable imperfection of flat surfaces introduces dazzling distortions.&nbsp; Sometimes the details of a reflected view are fragmented and repeated, something like what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/cfusion\/exchange\/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&amp;loc=en_us&amp;extid=1041134\" target=\"_blank\">an insect supposedly sees<\/a> with its compound eye.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3020\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2008-emergent-image.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3020\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3020\" title=\"fredhatt-2008-emergent-image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2008-emergent-image.jpg?resize=600%2C403\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2008-emergent-image.jpg?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2008-emergent-image.jpg?resize=300%2C201 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3020\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emergent Image, 2008, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There are layers of reflections, as when an object of stainless steel, with cylindrical curves, is viewed through a window, whose transparent and reflective qualities superimpose the space in front of the viewer over the space behind the viewer.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3021\" style=\"width: 387px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2005-modern-lamp.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3021\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3021\" title=\"fredhatt-2005-modern-lamp\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2005-modern-lamp.jpg?resize=377%2C600\" alt=\"\" width=\"377\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2005-modern-lamp.jpg?w=377 377w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2005-modern-lamp.jpg?resize=188%2C300 188w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3021\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Modern Lamp, 2005, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At night, metallic walls turn the various sources of light into swirling patterns like the methane turbulences of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacetelescope.org\/images\/opo0619b\/\" target=\"_blank\">the planet Jupiter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3022\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2004-steel-clouds.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3022\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3022\" title=\"fredhatt-2004-steel-clouds\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2004-steel-clouds.jpg?resize=600%2C315\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2004-steel-clouds.jpg?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2004-steel-clouds.jpg?resize=300%2C157 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3022\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steel Clouds, 2004, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Or like the<a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_4gF6YuGUwVM\/S3hMzPkm-mI\/AAAAAAAAM9o\/b3_0ZzgrULo\/s1600-h\/victor+vasarely87.bmp\" target=\"_blank\"> op-art paintings of Victor Vasarely<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3023\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2005-diner-rays.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3023\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3023\" title=\"fredhatt-2005-diner-rays\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2005-diner-rays.jpg?resize=600%2C404\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2005-diner-rays.jpg?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2005-diner-rays.jpg?resize=300%2C202 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3023\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diner Rays, 2005, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Or like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ricci-art.net\/img002\/47.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">tormented patterns of Arshile Gorky<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3024\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2002-plexi-deli.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3024\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3024\" title=\"fredhatt-2002-plexi-deli\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2002-plexi-deli.jpg?resize=600%2C450\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2002-plexi-deli.jpg?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2002-plexi-deli.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3024\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plexi Deli, 2002, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Frenetic jabs of neon and fluorescent light put a figure in an environment of cold fire.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3025\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2003-silvery-gate.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3025\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3025\" title=\"fredhatt-2003-silvery-gate\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2003-silvery-gate.jpg?resize=600%2C450\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2003-silvery-gate.jpg?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2003-silvery-gate.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3025\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Silvery Gate, 2003, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Stainless steel facets turn architecture into abstract expressionism.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3026\" style=\"width: 452px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2010-deco-shatter.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3026\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3026\" title=\"fredhatt-2010-deco-shatter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2010-deco-shatter.jpg?resize=442%2C600\" alt=\"\" width=\"442\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2010-deco-shatter.jpg?w=442 442w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2010-deco-shatter.jpg?resize=221%2C300 221w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3026\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deco Shatter, 2010, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Perhaps this view of reality, faceted, multiply reflected, distorted, layered, shows a reality that the classical image, with its hard-edged clear divisions, misses.&nbsp; Objects are not separate, but exist only in a complex web of relationships.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3027\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2010-patchwork.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3027\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3027\" title=\"fredhatt-2010-patchwork\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2010-patchwork.jpg?resize=550%2C550\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2010-patchwork.jpg?w=550 550w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2010-patchwork.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2010-patchwork.jpg?resize=300%2C300 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3027\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patchwork, 2010, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A person exists only as a reflection of all that is around them.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3028\" style=\"width: 348px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2005-chrome-mannequin.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3028\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3028\" title=\"fredhatt-2005-chrome-mannequin\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2005-chrome-mannequin.jpg?resize=338%2C600\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2005-chrome-mannequin.jpg?w=338 338w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2005-chrome-mannequin.jpg?resize=169%2C300 169w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3028\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chrome Mannequin, 2005, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Our love of order and regularity makes us build an environment of reflective planes.&nbsp; The imperfection of our planes reveals the contortions we like to think we&#8217;ve transcended.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3016\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2001-drunken-building.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3016\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3016\" title=\"fredhatt-2001-drunken-building\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2001-drunken-building.jpg?resize=600%2C450\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2001-drunken-building.jpg?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2001-drunken-building.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3016\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drunken Building, 2001, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Our grids are ragged and jagged.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3029\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2004-spasmodic-geometry.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3029\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3029\" title=\"fredhatt-2004-spasmodic-geometry\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2004-spasmodic-geometry.jpg?resize=550%2C550\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2004-spasmodic-geometry.jpg?w=550 550w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2004-spasmodic-geometry.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2004-spasmodic-geometry.jpg?resize=300%2C300 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3029\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spasmodic Geometry, 2004, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The more we try to order our world, the more it asserts its unwillingness to be ordered.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3030\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2011-amoebic-grid.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3030\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3030\" title=\"fredhatt-2011-amoebic-grid\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2011-amoebic-grid.jpg?resize=550%2C550\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2011-amoebic-grid.jpg?w=550 550w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2011-amoebic-grid.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2011-amoebic-grid.jpg?resize=300%2C300 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3030\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amoebic Grid, 2011, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The taillight of a car in the sunset becomes a scarlet thread in the steel quilt of a vendor&#8217;s cart.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3031\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2005-red-infusion.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3031\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3031\" title=\"fredhatt-2005-red-infusion\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2005-red-infusion.jpg?resize=600%2C399\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2005-red-infusion.jpg?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2005-red-infusion.jpg?resize=300%2C199 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3031\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red Infusion, 2005, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A new monument near Union Square depicts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warhol.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Andy Warhol<\/a> as the artist who reflected his surroundings, mirrorlike.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3032\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2011-silver-andy.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3032\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3032\" title=\"fredhatt-2011-silver-andy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2011-silver-andy.jpg?resize=550%2C550\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2011-silver-andy.jpg?w=550 550w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2011-silver-andy.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2011-silver-andy.jpg?resize=300%2C300 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3032\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Silver Andy (&quot;The Andy Monument&quot;, by sculptor Rob Pruitt, 2011), photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Regularity and symmetry are an illusion.&nbsp; The world we move in is dynamically unbalanced.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3033\" style=\"width: 438px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2001-red-distortion.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3033\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3033\" title=\"fredhatt-2001-red-distortion\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2001-red-distortion.jpg?resize=428%2C600\" alt=\"\" width=\"428\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2001-red-distortion.jpg?w=428 428w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2001-red-distortion.jpg?resize=214%2C300 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3033\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red Distortion, 2001, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Our reality is a membrane that seems to have an inside and an outside, but those two worlds are both implicit in the membrane, and their separateness is an illusion.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3034\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2001-winter-fruit.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3034\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3034\" title=\"fredhatt-2001-winter-fruit\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2001-winter-fruit.jpg?resize=600%2C450\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2001-winter-fruit.jpg?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2001-winter-fruit.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3034\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Winter Fruit, 2001, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>An image like this exists only because of the conjunction of the car and the building reflected in its surface.&nbsp; Light makes them one thing.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3035\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2004-pathfinder.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" 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prosperity.&nbsp; This silvery one also captures the colors and light of its surroundings.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3038\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2005-beckoning-cat.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3038\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3038\" title=\"fredhatt-2005-beckoning-cat\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2005-beckoning-cat.jpg?resize=450%2C600\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2005-beckoning-cat.jpg?w=450 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2005-beckoning-cat.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beckoning Cat, 2005, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Water is also used as a decorative element in the city of glass and steel.&nbsp; Its light distortions are dynamic, always in motion.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3039\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2010-plaza-pool.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3039\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3039\" title=\"fredhatt-2010-plaza-pool\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2010-plaza-pool.jpg?resize=600%2C450\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2010-plaza-pool.jpg?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fredhatt-2010-plaza-pool.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" 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