By reflecting landscapes onto the ground this Artist creates new impressions. Setting up precisely where Monet and Van Gogh stood, a “light tent” shines the subject of a masterpiece onto the ground. The resulting image is a mix of the true refection with the gravelly substrate [ground].
Via Design Milk:
Abelardo Morell’s images are not double-exposures. What you’re seeing is all happening within a single click of the camera without the use of a mechanical projector. His works are based on the principles of a camera obscura, in which light filters through a pinhole to “project” an image within a darkened room, much the way our own eyes work. But in Morell’s tent-camera photographs, he sets up a light-blocking tent at a specific location with a periscope at the top. The image of the real landscape outside bounces through periscope and is redirected to the ground within the dark tent, overlaying the view from outside over the spot from which it is seen – all in real time. To capture the final image, a digital camera is mounted inside the tent, controlled remotely via a computer by Morell. A great video of that process is at the end of this article.
Abelardo Morell: New Ground – In the Terrain of Van Gogh and Monet is on Display through December 9 at the Edwynn Hook Gallery
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