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Splatter, Instrument Five

November 19, 2013
Drawing instruments
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Splatter

Splatter

I don’t think I have posted this view of Instrument Five in action before. The throw of paint is almost spent, but the splatter on the backside of the drawing pieces is one of the clearest examples of this series, giving away the range of stories that emerge from the collision between the paint and the drawing pieces. The Paint discusses a certain occupation of the architecture that is modelled int he drawing pieces.

Drawing Instrument Three

September 16, 2013
Drawing instruments
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Instrument Three

Instrument Three

Instrument Three

Instrument Three

Instrument Three

Instrument Three

As you might have gathered from the recent posts, I have been going through images of the drawing instruments for an upcoming publication. So I have been posting some of the images I have dug out – not sure all of them are posted here for the first time I have posted similar ones to these (from the same session) before but don’t think the exact ones.

Paradoxical Shadows

March 23, 2013
Paradoxical Shadows
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Instrument Six (Nat Chard)

Instrument Six (Nat Chard)

Stereo Submarine

Stereo Submarine

The stereoscopic view of the submarine interior above is very similar to the one that revealed the possibility of making paradoxical shadows that float in mid air – the earlier version was a portrait frame but these are landscape and have a sharper floating shadow. Go cross-eyed so that similar elements int he photographs register with each other and then relax until the full three dimensional image resolves itself. Then look just below the periscope handle for the floating shadow.

 

The top image is of Instrument Six that makes such floating shadows, both photographically and in real time (as shown here, working with candles for a light source).