The new installation is finally finished. Well, pretty much. It could use some polishing, but this is pretty much the final image. It looks quite better in person. The above photos are pre-photoshoped. The final documentation will be a mixture of the two so it looks more like it really does. It is incredibly hard to document the way that the installations look. Digital images are never quite right. I'm going to start trying to get it with film, until then, it's more drudgery in photoshop for me. There is some detail in the lighted part that can't quite be picked up.
I'm really happy with this installation. It's the first that I've done that is based on a fashion image rather than a space/architecture/artifice. Hopefully as I move on, more of these will happen and they will help me make the pieces based on spaces/architecture/artifice more loose, gestural, and poetical. This one has a quality of strangeness and "otherness" that I think is better than past installations. This is also the first installation in which I've used two lights. One light with the whole armature and the other I use foil only to shape the light. I've got some ideas for beefing up the lights and adding some elements to make them more obviously seem connected conceptually with the wall pieces.
I've finally made a successful stereoscope! The images need to be polished and printed on nicer paper with a nicer printer. It does work though. In addition to being a new area of exploration for my ideas, this may solve some of my documentation issues and issues with showing in group shows. It's also a good way to explore the ideas of space within space and illusion. I also like how this illusion is created entirely in your head.
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I'd like to see it in real life. You can get a digital camera that will capture what you're looking for, but it'll cost ya around 700 bucks (10 MP Cannon Eos Digital Rebel should do the trick). Still, it's cheaper and less time consuming than using a medium format film camera, which would probably be necessary for you to really get what you're looking for in terms of image quality. 35 MM cameras, even with fantastic exposure control and super fine grained film, are just not up to snuff for this type of work.
The nature of your work will require you to pick up some expensive camera equipment as you move along. You are, in essence, drawing and painting with light. There will never be a substitution worthy of the actual piece (is there ever in any medium?), but with proper photographic techniques you can at least control the perception on a 2D plane to same degree you can with the actual installation.
Looks like a lovely piece. The photos remind me of a soft candle flame. I think your interest in such tender light motifs is quite nice. Especially considering that where you live is so harsh and graphic with its public light displays (thinking about Times Square).
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