Robert Smithson - Seventh Mirror Displacement - Visual Analysis

Formal Analysis This is a photograph of a tangled tree in a jungle on the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico with twelve square mirrors woven into the tree’s branches by the photographer, Robert Smithson.This is the seventh in a series of nine photos called ‘mirror displacements’ taken in 1969.The series was accompanied by an essay called ‘Incidents of Mirror-Travel in the Yucatan’. A central bundle of grayish-brown trunks makes up the tree’s core which is surrounded by thin branches arcing downward and outward.