Images, Stereoscope/Ghost Slides, 2023, RMIT
Stereoscope/Ghost Slides
Vintage stereoscope, timber, elastic, cardboard, vintage paper collage.
The work explored two optical effects - the stereoscopic effect, through the use of an antique stereoscope, and the persistence of vision effect by creating slides to be viewed through the stereoscope.
The slides, rather than stereoscopic, were deliberately non-stereoscopic. This caused a ghosting effect as the eyes tried to adjust to the two images whilst viewing through the apparatus.
Most of this work was created and presented on the land of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong / Boon Wurrung peoples of the Kulin Nation. I pay respect to their Elders past and present. I acknowledge and honour the unbroken spiritual, cultural and political connection they have maintained to this unique place for more than 2000 generations.
Images, Stereoscope/Ghost Slides, 2023, RMIT
The “ghost slides” were created from photographs of workers with industrial machinery taken from a 1930s book of engineering achievements. The worker was cut out of the photograph and placed on one side of the slide while the remaining image, minus the worker, was on the other slide. This created a ghosting effect where the image of the worker would hover around the negative space where it had once been, never settling.
