Clarity through distance

In my 2nd experiment I first went on the Bondi to Coogee walk to feel distance with every step. I came across so many pictures, so many impressions, that I became dizzy with distance. Where should I start here? I searched with my camera, took pictures. It was getting darker and darker, I made a video of the path I was walking on: speed and structures merged together.

People were irritated by what I was doing, a dog was barking because I had come too close at his eye level. And all of a sudden I realized that it was the light that allowed me to take the shots of my camera. Without light there is no space, without light there are no colours. It was a theme that occupied the Impressionists in France in the 19th century.

Such as Monet, for example, who dealt in detail with the altered perception of colour through the changing sunlight. Seurat attempted to use pointillism to separate the colours on the canvas, and then to create a mixture of colours in the eye of the beholder.

Op Art also deals with the illusions of perception and tries to fathom the limits.

I thought about the human colour spectrum, our eye, which uses fine sensors to perceive colour, form, structure, light and dark, quality and quantity contrast and much more.  It was right in front of me.

I continued to occupy myself with the perception of colour vision and how a camera records colours. When we see a color, the wavelengths of that color are reflected, all others are absorbed. How are colours made visible on the monitor? Which grid is rgb and which grid is cmyk based on?

I took a photo of the word distance from the book of my random generator, enlarged the image and reduced the contrast until I could no longer read it. Then I converted it to the raster used in rgb mode and translated it to cmyk by printing it out. To be able to read the word now, you have to keep your distance in the room. Get active clarity through distance. The closer you get, the less clear it becomes, the more the invisible becomes visible.

When I was looking for a suitable place to present my work, I noticed that the structure of the felt pinboards had a similar shade of grey as the grid of my prints. Because although the grid is made up of the cmyk colours, the colours mix into a grey tone when viewed from a distance.

The further one moves away, the smaller the grid becomes, the more deviations are emphasized, we can distinguish letters, which finally reveal the word “distance”.