“…for the Melancholic (anti-persepctive device)” or the digital aquarium, 2020

This is a stand alone five sided faceted cabinet. It consists of a cardboard covered steel frame housing five varying sized deeply set five sided digital windows, each displaying a different perspective of slow motion looped animation of an undefined organic form.

The concept is that the viewer will reassemble the five views of the form into an implied whole, like a five shot sequence of film.

I suppose in some ways the idea came from seeing Gary Hill’s amazing video work, “Inasmuch As It Is Always Already Taking Place”, in the early 90s at the sorely missed (Ydessa) Hendeles Gallery in Toronto.

 

Later version of “…for the Melancholic (anti-persepctive device)” or the digital aquarium, 2020
Early version of “…for the Melancholic (anti-persepctive device)” or the digital aquarium, 2020

A view of the steel framework for the digital aquarium, welded by Nolan at Hinterland Design in Vancouver:

some digitally rendered views:
“…for the Melancholic (anti-persepctive device)” or the digital aquarium, 2020
“…for the Melancholic (anti-persepctive device)” or the digital aquarium, 2020
“…for the Melancholic (anti-persepctive device)” or the digital aquarium, 2020