Liverpool Tate reopening and my favourites of the day

SO thrilling to be back at the Liverpool Tate art gallery after 7 months away... it felt odd to be back in a public space! Reigniting my interest in other's work is essential to help motivate me and aid me with idea-generating. The highlight of my trip was definitely Jersey 2008 by Hurvin Anderson. It depicts the inside of a barbershop in Jamaica, shown as an important social space for black men such as himself and his parents too. The piece has many square and rectangular blocks of colour in the mirror reflection, which really pop as the rooms colour scheme is fairly neutral. Despite the blocks of colour being striking and bold, they have no detail. The description interprets this as reflections of posters and the fading of memory over time but I interpreted it as many reflections interacting with the many other mirrors typically in the space. When I've been to a hairdresser, the large mirrors on parallel walls give the illusion of a larger space and repeat objects many times. The use of foreground and background elements further leads me to believe that the mirrors are creating the illusion of expanded space. 

When I viewed Yayoi Kusama's The Passing Winter 2005, her use of reflections with her circle cut-outs and glass reminded me of Anderson's use of reflections of blocks on canvas. Though one piece was 2D and another 3D, they both gave me a sense of expanded space and unlimited boundaries.