Virtual Image | Black mirror Scene reduction Aesthetic instinct |
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n support of my interest in creating optical devices to augment photographic vision, I have been researching the “Claude Glass.” This was a popular optical tool used by artists, travelers and landscape enthusiasts in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Essentially a small slightly convex mirror tinted a dark color, in use it isolated and abstracted a scene by reflection. Here I have virtually integrated the concept by photographing, through the “Ocular Tunnel,” an environmental reflection off the surface of a black car.
“It is very typical of their attitude to Nature that such a position should be desirable.” - Hugh Sykes Davies
