Kaleidoscope

Mixed-Media Sculpture with Video Projection

The Kaleidoscope project constitutes a culmination of two predominant processes that I have been working on simultaneously but independently, i.e. investigation into tunnels, portals, layers of reality, Buddhist Mandala imagery, etc. and my self-portrait process.

This structure reflects my own dimensions and came from work I was doing on the role of the visionary in tribal cultures. The shaman/artist/meditator transcends physical reality to draw information from a place the aboriginal calls "the great world", a world that exists behind our own and can be experienced through internal vision and introspection. I created this object to act as a diagram of this concept.

The sculpture consists of a long kaleidoscope supported by a row of six wooden frames that form a triangular prism. The main materials used were mirrors, basic construction timber and duct-tape.

The structure is a device through which projected digital video is distorted. In its premier exhibition I choose an excerpt from the film Stalker (1979, Andrei Tarkovsky). In this excerpt the three main characters; the materialist, the rationalist and their spiritualist guide are making a journey from the city where they live into the forbidden "Zone" a mysterious heavily guarded area rumoured to grant wishes.

I have since experimented with a range of other footage that has developed potential interpretations of this piece.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Art
• Sculpture
• Kaleidoscope
• mirror
• visual
• fractal
• trippy

[lookleft23]

very butifull pices of work well done

[mikimikiopop]

excellnt!

[085noproblem]

damn cool! u should seriously consider makin one u can sit inside. (or raise cats in...mua ha ha!)

[smodjface]

The interior looks three dimensional. I like it much.