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Light from a drawing of a cube is projected through two rapidly rotating vertical strings, which form a curved, three-dimensional screen.<\/p>\n

The flat projected image moves slowly from left to right, causing the reconstructed (captured) image to shift and redraw itself in space.<\/p>\n

A text describing this work and its development was published in Leonardo Journal, Pergamon Press, UK.<\/p>\n

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Title: Curved Cube<\/strong><\/p>\n

Date: 1978<\/p>\n

Dimensions: Structure 100 \u00d7 50 \u00d7 400 cm<\/p>\n

Materials: 35mm photographic slides, slide projector, projected light, rotating string, electric motor<\/p>\n

Edition: Unique<\/p>\n

Notes: A prize-winner at Northern Young Contemporaries, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, UK, and included in the solo exhibition Light Lines<\/a><\/strong> at the Museum of Holography, New York, USA<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

It is possible to walk around the luminous, three-dimensional image\/object\/structure and view it from multiple angles.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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