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Double Take

In this series, I work with mid-century magazines, cutting figures from the printed worlds they once inhabited and suspending them between clear and mirrored acrylic. Each piece becomes a viewing assemblage: the image floats in front of its reflection, and the viewer's own image enters the composition, changing what's visible depending on where you stand.

I'm interested in how perception shifts — how the act of looking can alter what we think we know. These works invite you to move, to catch yourself in the mirror, and to consider how images from the past have informed the ways we see today.

Adornment by Shannon Milar — Double Take series. Found images, clear + mirrored acrylic, nylon + metal hardware. Large feathered forms in teal and pink frame openings through which faces are glimpsed, the mirrored backing reflecting printed text.

Adornment

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Brilliance by Shannon Milar — Double Take series. Found images, clear + mirrored acrylic, nylon + metal hardware. A figure in a wide straw hat, face replaced by a cutout revealing the page reverse, her hands composed against layered printed text.

Brilliance

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Coverage by Shannon Milar — Double Take series. Found images, clear + mirrored acrylic, nylon + metal hardware. A woman with a tall bouffant hairstyle, her face replaced by a cutout exposing insurance text through the printed page, the mirror returning both sides at once.

Coverage

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Expertise by Shannon Milar — Double Take series. Found images, clear + mirrored acrylic, nylon + metal hardware. A group of women in a black-and-white editorial photograph, each face replaced by an oval cutout revealing printed text from the page reverse, the mirror returning their absent expressions.

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Loyal by Shannon Milar — Double Take series. Found images, clear + mirrored acrylic, nylon + metal hardware. Two overlapping figures, one wearing a UCLA cap, faces merged with printed imagery in duotone tones, the mirror compressing identities into a single layered field.

Loyal

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Magnetic by Shannon Milar — Double Take series. Found images, clear + mirrored acrylic, nylon + metal hardware. A man in a tuxedo and cowboy hat, face replaced by a cutout showing the page reverse, a second mustachioed figure in a cowboy hat reflected in the mirrored backing alongside a vintage car.

Magnetic

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Power by Shannon Milar — Double Take series. Found images, clear + mirrored acrylic, nylon + metal hardware. A lion's head merges with a dark silhouette against a bold yellow and black ground, a vintage car visible below, the mirror compressing image and reflection into a single field.

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Precision by Shannon Milar — Double Take series. Found images, clear + mirrored acrylic, nylon + metal hardware. A figure applying a cosmetic, face replaced by a cutout showing the page back, charm bracelet and pearl necklace visible, the mirror doubling the gesture.

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Surface by Shannon Milar — Double Take series. Found images, clear + mirrored acrylic, nylon + metal hardware. Two figures — one in geometric sunglasses, one in a jeweled garment — layered over a patterned fabric ground, the mirror revealing the back of the printed page.

Surface

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Synthetic by Shannon Milar — Double Take series. Found images, clear + mirrored acrylic, nylon + metal hardware. An older figure wrapped in ochre fabric, face replaced by a cutout of printed text, the mirrored backing exposing an animal image and text from the page reverse.

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Civil rights (of passage) by Shannon Milar — Double Take series. Cut from mid-century magazines, found images and text are pressed between clear acrylic sheets set before a mirrored panel. A group of suited men gestures in unison, their mirrored doubles fractured by the printed page.

Civil rights (of passage)

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Derrière le sourire by Shannon Milar — Double Take series. Cut from mid-century magazines, found images and text are pressed between clear acrylic sheets set before a mirrored panel. A composed figure overlays an urban scene, the mirror revealing both faces of the printed page.

Derrière le sourire

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Do you have to be dazzled? by Shannon Milar — Double Take series. Cut from mid-century magazines, found images and text are pressed between clear acrylic sheets set before a mirrored panel. Figures adorned in glitter and feathers reflect through mirrored text and gaze, exposing the artifice of display.

Do you have to be dazzled?

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I'll be watching you by Shannon Milar — Double Take series. Cut from mid-century magazines, found images and text are pressed between clear acrylic sheets set before a mirrored panel. Layered figures in bold pattern meet mirrored fragments, where gesture and reflection unsettle the frame.

I'll be watching you

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Keeping Sigrid in sight by Shannon Milar — Double Take series. Cut from mid-century magazines, found images and text are pressed between clear acrylic sheets set before a mirrored panel. A figure with red hair reflects across mirrored faces, where image and text converge through shifting planes.

Keeping Sigrid in sight

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Looking forward by Shannon Milar — Double Take series. Cut from mid-century magazines, found images and text are pressed between clear acrylic sheets set before a mirrored panel. A family group is fragmented by mirrored reflection, where the printed text slips between affection and instruction.

Looking forward

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Seeking the coolest spot by Shannon Milar — Double Take series. Cut from mid-century magazines, found images and text are pressed between clear acrylic sheets set before a mirrored panel. Figures entwined in bright color and print meet in mirrored reflection, exposing both sides of the page.

Seeking the coolest spot

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Truth or fiction? by Shannon Milar — Double Take series. Cut from mid-century magazines, found images and text are pressed between clear acrylic sheets set before a mirrored panel. Juxtaposed portraits meet reversed headlines, where image and language overlap in reflection.

Truth or fiction?

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Where angels fear to tread (gold) by Shannon Milar — Double Take series. Cut from mid-century magazines, found images and text are pressed between clear acrylic sheets set before a mirrored panel. A poised figure framed in gold satin meets reversed print, her mirrored image exposing both sides of the page.

Where angels fear to tread (gold)

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Where angels fear to tread (rose) by Shannon Milar — Double Take series. Cut from mid-century magazines, found images and text are pressed between clear acrylic sheets set before a mirrored panel. A poised figure framed in pink satin meets reversed print, her mirrored image exposing both sides of the page.

Where angels fear to tread (rose)

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