Light from a 35mm photographic slide containing a rectangle of 25 dots is projected across the gallery space. It occupies the length of the gallery but is normally invisible.
Five translucent black screens intercept the dots (catch the light), making the light visible and generating a cube which displays vertical and horizontal parallax.
The fabric of the screens was removed in the lower right front corner – in effect, editing out the dots of light which should appear there. The removal of these dots was a non-public performative event which took place just before the opening of the exhibition.
Title: Corner Edit
Date: 1982
Dimensions: 1 × 1 × 1 m
Materials: 35mm photographic slide, slide projector, five translucent hanging screens
Edition: Unique
Notes: Made specially for the solo show Light Lines at the Museum of Holography, New York, 1982
A new work produced for Pepper’s solo show Light Lines in New York, shown alongside three other projected, animated light installations.
Viewers could move around the ‘object’ and explore it visually from multiple viewpoints, as they would a more traditional solid sculpture.
The piece was located at the entrance to the exhibition so that visitors moved past it as they entered the gallery and were subtly directed to see the projected cube from the front and side.
Layout of the flat dots used for the projection, which were ‘synthesised’ into what appears to be a three-dimensional cube displayed, unsupported, in the gallery space.