Sunday 3 December 2017

Blue Moon

More photos of Blue Moon: The photogram of a sphere, cyanotyped into a body of silk threads that are attached to and sewn into two acrylic glasses.




Capturing the luminosity in a sculpture like this is one of those things. The camera "sees" an image that looks quite different from what my eyes see - as if it has its own idea of how to "translate" luminosity, shading and depth into 2D.

Blue Moon was photographed with nothing but the natural November light filtering through the north-facing studio window, and thus became a subject for familiarising myself with the manual settings of our camera...