75. Agatha Christie "Bookcase Camera"
acrylic plastic, clayboard, ink
atelier ying, nyc.
This design is a process in parts. Certainly, one of its shelves could be made into rudimentary pinhole, with its aperture fitted onto the clock face. But I think it should simply point to a more ambitious design of a wooden pinhole camera, painted with a bookcase on the facade (like this one) and a secret latch for its shutter, giving a creepy feeling to its subject as if there were a pair of eyes observing through the books. It would have a very innovative period-looking flash unit playfully recalling Weegee cameras, and it would offer from a pair of rear barn doors a tiny English-styled bar serving up glasses of Sherry after photo sessions. The entire cabinet of dark mahogany is displayed on a tiny table surrounded by a red velvet round curtain looped through a stainless ring, making it a photobooth.
Living all my life in Chinatown, I do not come from a nature-oriented culture, so the colors of my palette are artificial.
All thirteen children's books from Agatha Christie's delightful novel, "Postern of Fate" are recorded here on its shelves with the most important one, "Black Arrow" right next to the cigar humidor.
This piece is lovingly dedicated to my childhood friend Adele Rissetti, who showed me from her deathbed her bookcase of Agatha Christie novels.
Text for design, drawing and sculpture are copyrighted 2013 by David Lo
75. Agatha Christie "Bookcase Camera"
acrylic plastic, clayboard, ink
atelier ying, nyc.
This design is a process in parts. Certainly, one of its shelves could be made into rudimentary pinhole, with its aperture fitted onto the clock face. But I think it should simply point to a more ambitious design of a wooden pinhole camera, painted with a bookcase on the facade (like this one) and a secret latch for its shutter, giving a creepy feeling to its subject as if there were a pair of eyes observing through the books. It would have a very innovative period-looking flash unit playfully recalling Weegee cameras, and it would offer from a pair of rear barn doors a tiny English-styled bar serving up glasses of Sherry after photo sessions. The entire cabinet of dark mahogany is displayed on a tiny table surrounded by a red velvet round curtain looped through a stainless ring, making it a photobooth.
Living all my life in Chinatown, I do not come from a nature-oriented culture, so the colors of my palette are artificial.
All thirteen children's books from Agatha Christie's delightful novel, "Postern of Fate" are recorded here on its shelves with the most important one, "Black Arrow" right next to the cigar humidor.
This piece is lovingly dedicated to my childhood friend Adele Rissetti, who showed me from her deathbed her bookcase of Agatha Christie novels.
Text for design, drawing and sculpture are copyrighted 2013 by David Lo