Dialogues between materials, creative gestures,vessels for thoughts.
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Visual remnants from drawn trace of a human body after processes and mappings.
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“Sometimes people have the idea that art should be highly refined.
But I always believed that one could make art out of simple, humble
things. Small things can be transcendental. They can change our way
of looking at the world. I think it’s important to make art out of
almost anything”. Antoni Tapies.
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The first daguerreotype of a solar eclipse
The first correctly-exposed photograph of the solar corona was made during the total phase of the solar eclipse of 28 July 1851 at Königsberg (now Kaliningrad) by a local daguerreotypist named Berkowski. Berkowski observed at the Royal Observatory following a proposal by its director A. Busch. A small refracting telescope (D = 6.1 cm, f = 81.2 cm) was attached to the hour drive of the 15.8-cm Fraunhofer heliometer, and a 84-s exposure was taken shortly after the beginning of totality. After the eclipse, Busch (who did not observe the eclipse at Königsberg but at Rixhöft), published some details about the daguerreotype (without mentioning Berkowski’s first name) and ordered a local artist (R. Trossin) to make an enlarged steel engraving from the daguerreotype plate. On the original plate the moon’s diameter is 7.85 mm, and at least 5 prominences are well visible on the limb of the sun. Later Berkowski himself made some daguerreotype reproductions from his original plate.
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St Pancras (Sectional Drawing)
Alan Dunlop
c. 2009
pencil on paper (hand generated image)
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Saturn by Vija Celmins, 1985
Russell Moreton : Matter(s) in Correspondence 