Space-Images

Space-Images

Once in a conversation a plan of Miklós Erdély cropped up, which he had never realized. He had not thought it important to follow the process through in practice, only in theory.
The question was what happens when the projected image of a slide is photographed, then projected, photographed again, several times over. The result proved to be rather simple. As a consequence of newly added light, the image became bleached after a time.
As opposed to a slide being thus bleached, if we copy any recording on the same videotape several times at a rate of 50-50%, we withdraw light, thus the image is blackened.
In this work of mine, I study the situation of matterless image and the process of withdrawing light. Re-viewing the series of images on several monitors, the spaces reduced to various patches of colour in the course of being copied onto each other created patterns and variations of movement having the effect of music. The movement variations were determined by the length of the rope fastening the camera to the ceiling during shooting. The length of the shots with four different movement directions (from left to right, right to left, from below upwards, from above downwards) was governed by the durations of spins. While re-viewing on the monitors, we witness acceleration and deceleration.
I copied these shots onto the same place at a 50-50% rate until the image, due to the withdrawal of light, was blackened. This long process may be followed on the large panes of glass placed opposite the monitors that provide newer possibilities for observing stratification and the whereabouts of image.
If we follow the route of the spots of light starting out from the monitors through their encounter with the panes of glass to the image made on the retina, we discover that rays of light, after reflection on the panes of glass, become divergent. Our eyes search for the image in the direction of these rays, and they find it at the crossing point of the imaginary elongation of the rays, in other words, behind the glass panes and at the same distance from the glass as from the viewer.