Series > Relative Strangers
Cinema takes advantage of the limits of our visual perception, creating the illusion of motion from still images that flicker by our eyes at just the right pace. This series applies that principle to sculpture: a flat shape can create the illusion of volume, if it spins at the right speed under the right light.
Cutout silhouettes in wood or acrylic sheet spin rapidly in the beam of bright spotlight. The edge or surface of each silhouette reflects the light that hits it, and because it spins fast enough (about 500 rpm), that surface appears nearly continuous. The volume stands, but with a discernible intermittency, like the flicker of an old film. The resulting objects hover somewhere between two and three dimensions.
