After much research and the usual dead ends of initial ideas, which seemed great in my minds-eye but fizzle out all too quickly in reality, I have a few strands of work which are starting to develop.
One of the pieces of work which I am developing at the moment builds upon the abstract forms I created last year as well as the concept of reality, perception and illusion. Influenced by optical illusion devices (e.g. camera obscura, camera lucida, stereoscopes, zoetrobe, anamorphic cylinders) as well as abstract mathematical concepts (e.g. infinity) and geometry (e.g. proportions). In particular I have been working on creating stereoscopic paintings and images using the following techniques:
1) Mirror Stereoscope
2) Lens Stereoscope
3) Anaglyph Images
They are hard to reproduce on a computer screen for obvious reasons but if you have a pair of red/blue 3-D glasses then you might just see 3).
1) Stereoscopic Paintings (for a mirror stereoscope)
Going Around The Corner, 2010,
Acrylic on Canvas, 125mm x 118mm each
2) Stereoscopic Pictures (for a lens stereoscope)
Note that I have created these images based upon the paintings but using Adobe Illustrator so that they are identical along the horizontal plane - other wise known as zero parallax.
Viewing with a lens stereoscope is easier but they can also be viewed cross-eyed that is without any device. As illustrated in this extract from my sketchbook.
3) Anaglyph Images (for viewing with 3-D red/blue filter specs)
To experiment with this technique I couldn't use the abstract motif as I needed to have an image with a real depth. That is a definitive foreground, middle and background. Also an image without red. I used a classroom, placed a blue chair in the foreground and took two photographs (6cm apart along the horizontal) and then used Photoshop layers.
I will be doing a series of stereoscopic and anaglyph images from around the school to tie in with my exhibition at the end of the residency in the summer. One of the theme's I will be exploring is 'separation', a reference to the green-baize door situated next to my exhibition space.
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