Light from a drawing of a cube is projected through two rapidly rotating vertical strings, which form a curved, three-dimensional screen.
The flat projected image moves slowly from left to right, causing the reconstructed (captured) image to shift and redraw itself in space.
A text describing this work and its development was published in Leonardo Journal, Pergamon Press, UK.
Title: Curved Cube
Date: 1978
Dimensions: Structure 100 × 50 × 400 cm
Materials: 35mm photographic slides, slide projector, projected light, rotating string, electric motor
Edition: Unique
Notes: A prize-winner at Northern Young Contemporaries, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, UK, and included in the solo exhibition Light Lines at the Museum of Holography, New York, USA
Although the two rapidly rotating strings, which run from floor to ceiling, move quickly, they have been adjusted to produce a slight flicker reminiscent of low-resolution projected film or early television images.
It is possible to walk around the luminous, three-dimensional image/object/structure and view it from multiple angles.
There is a moment where the observer stands between the slide projector and the rotating screen – at that point, their body blocks the projected light and the work becomes invisible. They, in effect, become the screen.