Stripes

	After spending three months working in a studio in Paris I became fascinated by an installation near the Louvre by Daniel Burren. This piece of public art provided the setting to a multitude of social activities. I took photographs of Lovers, Children, picnicking families, unaware of being captured on film, relaxing among the striped columns of the sculpture. By digitally manipulating the photographic images, I isolated these people moving amongst the fixed columns. The people interacting with the columns became sculptural forms themselves, with the column acting as pedestals. These images were outputted from the computer as slides. The figures on these slides were projected life-size onto semi-transparent material suspended within the space. The projections came from all sides. This will allowed the viewers to move around the figures. Together, the viewer saw these ephemeral figures and saw the other viewers. The projectors were programmed to fade from one image to another. These dynamic tableau's recorded a continually changing sculptural construction. The compression of a full day into the same time it takes to stroll around the gallery created a pattern of events which seemed to be happening simultaneously. The images alternated between positive and negative turning the unique actions of the subjects into universal motifs. The viewer perceived the reversed images of the striped columns of the sculpture as unchanged, whereas the reversed images of the figures became unsettling illusions.

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