Descry

Descry

Production country: 
gb
Year: 
1992
Edition: 
1993
Format: 
installation

"The picture we see on a colour television screen is made up of tiny dots arranged in groups of three. Each group contains one red, one green and one blue dot. Without magnification the dots are too small to see and the eye blends them together to form a comprehensible picture. The transformation of three colours into many more is called additive mixing: blue plus green makes cyan; red plus blue makes magenta and red plus green makes yellow. Other shades of colour can be created by changing the intensity. To create white electron beams stimulate the dots in each group equally. Black is produced by not stimulating them at all. Rarely do we experience a single light or complete darkness. “ (Judith Goddard)

The installation forms an electronic arc of 7 synchronised monitors to meditate oncolour, narrative elements and incidents. Facing the arc, a small monitor with a magnifying len- se in front of it shows the operation of an eye. The meditative atmosphere is thus sharply contrasted enlarging the scope of oppositions and transformations.

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