Mimesis is a concept that comes from ancient culture and means imitation or, according to Plato, the production of copies (copies). Modern technologies such as photogrammetry and augmented reality are returning the artistic process to its roots in imitation, which is at best a distortion and at worst a deception.

An important plastic and ideological part of AR sculpture modeling is the creation of a “portal”. That is, the development of a special and unique marker that activates an AR art object. Placing such a target in a specific place associates the art object with it. When creating Mimesis Mill, it was important to find markers that already existed in the urban environment. Thus, the new warning signs depicting masked faces that appeared on the streets of Düsseldorf during the coronavirus quarantine became the markers for this AR sculpture.