The Interior Castle, 2022
Lenticular print, hand-cut collage
40 x 28 in
The original hand-cut version of this collage incorporated three laser holograms which were featured on the covers of National Geographic in the 1980s. The process of trying to document the original collage led to a number of experiments with video, animation, and 3D viewing systems. Eventually, these experiments led to reformatting the entire collage into separate layers and having it printed as a 3D lenticular. Conceptually, the collage is heavily based on the themes of Naomi Klein’s 2007 book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, specifically the relationship between death, capitalism and propaganda.
the parallax effect
While 3D viewing systems are notoriously difficult to document in 2D formats, the parallax effect can help demonstrate the visual trickery of lenticular prints and other forms of stereoscopic imagery. This effect is created by moving a camera across a series of visual layers which are placed at varying distances from that camera. Think of a camera shot in which a car is driving past a scene of rolling hills; the hills which are closer to the camera appear to move much quicker than those which are further away. This same effect can be created with the use of a virtual 3D model and a virtual camera in After Effects. By laying out the layers of the collage at varying distances from the virtual camera and then moving that camera from side to side, the effect of looking at the lenticular in person can be mimicked.
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