Phillip K. Smith III’s “Reflection Field”

A man looks into mirrored panels of”Reflection Field” by Phillip K. Smith III at the Coachella Music and Arts Festival.  (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

“Reflection Field” stands out at dusk in Indio. The artist, Phillip K. Smith, is a Rhode Island School of Design graduate and resident of the Coachella Valley.   (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

“By day, the free-standing monolithic mirrored volumes are prisms of earth and sky, wrapped by the surrounding environment,” artist Phillip K. Smith III says of the work. “By night, they become expansive fields of color that blend and layer through echoes of reflection. Spaces become simultaneously infinite and finite, while hues push and pull, saturating and dissolving the surroundings and your periphery into pure color.”  (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)