The digital hologram, containing three distinct planes of light, each punctuated by a rectangular hole, is displayed in a traditional format on the gallery wall.
Light from a 35mm slide is projected across the space to illuminate the holographic rectangle.
Title: Three Planes Transected
Date: 2015
Dimensions: Hologram 29 x 29 cm
Materials: Digital hologram, 35mm slide + projector
Produced within the Summer Lodge 2015 residency at Nottingham Trent University. 29 June – 10 July 2015.
The location and structure of the plinth, which supports the 35mm slide projector, is integral to the installation, offering a ‘barrier’ between the observer and the observed.
There is a series of questions raised around the nature of the illumination.
Is the projector projecting the image seen in the hologram in a way we traditionally understand the effect of projected images?
Where is the image located – within the hologram, within the projector, or in some space between the two?
Attempting to view the holographic image ‘head-on’, at the point where traditional vanishing-point perspective would become operative, causes the observer to obscure the illuminating source, effectively ‘switching off’ the holographic image.
The use of semi-redundant technology (the slide projector) as an integral aspect of the installation, alongside advanced imaging technology (digital holography) and the vocabulary of gallery installation (through wall-based and museum plinths), attempts to raise questions around the misconception of how holographic images are ‘projected’ and their ‘place’ in a display culture.
See also Curved.