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"The Way We Know It - Lightning Field v.1" 2006
Mixed media kinetic sculpture generating live video and audio
63" h x 88" x 15"

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Ian Burns sculpture. The Way We Know It - Lightning Field v.1. 2006

 

One in a series of works that examine the latent power of images of remote, lost and ephemeral famous art works that are largely known only through image and film representations, but which, despite the lack of direct experience are well accepted as great works.

In this series of works I was intrigued to see if producing sculptures that generated somewhat cinematic renderings of these great works would tap into part of the psychological "knowing" of the works themselves and create a stronger emotive response to the generated video than would seem reasonable given the means of its creation - in this case a camera view of some dirty carpet and upside down needles, with some light effects added.

 

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