Title: Random Cube Rotation
Date: 1980
Edition: Edition of 10
Materials: 35mm photographic slide, slide projectors, projected light, rotating object, elastic, electric motor.
Size: Structure 1 x 1 x 1 M
Notes: Light from a 'drawing' of a cube is projected onto the slowly rotating sculpture in a dark space. Only the effect of this light being 'intercepted' can be seen. Not the sculpture itself.
The result is a constantly moving 'volume' of tiny dots of light which describe the volume of a cube.
Shown at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, and a New Contemporaries prize winner.
This work eventually lead onto experiments with holography and the Line Addition piece.
Title: Curved String
Date: 1978
Edition: Installation
Materials: 35mm photographic slides, slide projectors, projected light, rotating string, electric motor.
Size: Structure 100 x 50 x 400 CM
Notes: Light from a 'drawing' of a cube is projected through two rapidly rotating strings which form a curved (three-dimensional) screen
The projected image slowly moves from left to right causing the reconstructed image, in space, to shift and 'redraw' itself.
A paper describing this work and its development is published in the Leonardo, Journal of Contemporary Visual Artists.
Title: Steam Beams
Date: 1979
Edition: Installation
Materials: 35mm photographic slides, slide projectors, projected light, steam
Size: Structure 1 x 1 x 1 M
Notes: Light from two projectors is intercepted by a column of steam which acts as a three-dimensional 'screen' to display (and construct) the 'physical' object/image.
Observers can interact with the piece by walking past it (or through it) so that their air currents cause the steam to move with a resulting change in the location of the lines of light.