Interior Lens, No. 1-3, 2022
Interior Lens, No. 1-3, 2022
Wood, LEDs, stereograph viewer, acrylic, polycarbonate, collage
5 x 8 x 8 in
This series of stereograph viewers was created as a contemporary analog middle-ground between traditional stereograph slide viewers like Viewmasters and modern Virtual Reality technology. Like with the Viewmaster, the stereograph slides are transparent and interchangeable, but they are electrically backlit and the use of a repurposed VR Viewer allows the image to fill more visual space than a Viewmaster. While the design of the viewers is meant to keep technology at an arm’s length, the collages reflect on the ways in which technology already occupies so much of the interior life of contemporary humans.
the collages
This series of digital collages were created by first creating each composition in Photoshop, and then separating each layer in a 3D model in After Effects. Once that model is created, a virtual camera can be moved around it to create multiple vantage points of the layers. This camera movement is represented in the parallax animations below.
Interior Lens, No. 1
Digital collage
Interior Lens, No. 1 (Parallax)
Interior Lens, No. 2
Digitial collage
Interior Lens, No. 2 (Parallax)
Interior Lens, No. 3
Digital collage
Interior Lens, No. 3 (Parallax)
Installation Views
For the installation, two individual vantage points were selected for each collage. These two images were then formatted and developed on photographic transparency film. The formatting of the images makes it so that when looking into the lenses, each eye is only seeing one vantage point of the 3D model, which mimics the effect of looking at a multi-layered object in 3D space. These transparencies are then backlit by an array of LEDs on the back of the lightbox.
