Speculative Architecture VI
ATMOSPHERIC TRANSFORMATION OF THE SUBCONCSIOUS
Sydney Weigel
I constructed a pinhole camera, a camera obscura, with 8 lenses. The product of the pinhole camera is a series of images produced with various dark and light contrasting images. The images in their raw form are produced inverted and backwards. To produce these images required a series of tedious tasks. The paper that is used to capture these images is labeled as silver gelatin paper. Through only a dark room, can it be worked with without being tarnished, even by the exposure of a cellphone light can ruin an entire reem of paper. It was through cropping, and tediously using double sided tape, inside the light tight pinhole camera that I constructed, that I adhered them to all sides of the camera, pierced pin-head diameter holes through the corresponding sides of paper, covered those sides with black electrical tape, and carried carefully the camera to the site of exposure, and it was left to capture a series of images within the time span of 1 minute to 3 minutes, depending on the intensity of light throughout the day.
What I find most profound, is that the images produced inside this camera are unpredictable. The light in the space that I had captured, had never been seen like that before. I ran multiple series of tests and runs. Different times of day, different positions in it’s environment, and though sometimes I would try to see if I could get a duplicate of some images, it never worked. I think that it’s in this mystery is where the beauty is found. Put simply, these images produced are a metaphor for the unconscious mind. The journey of anxiety and depression is never the same for each who struggle, we each are our own star in the galaxy, we matter, and so do our stories. Our journey, be it from darkness to light, look different to each, and should architecturally be treated in the same thoughtful, and unique way.
Speculative Architecture VI
ATMOSPHERIC TRANSFORMATION OF THE SUBCONCSIOUS
Sydney Weigel
I constructed a pinhole camera, a camera obscura, with 8 lenses. The product of the pinhole camera is a series of images produced with various dark and light contrasting images. The images in their raw form are produced inverted and backwards. To produce these images required a series of tedious tasks. The paper that is used to capture these images is labeled as silver gelatin paper. Through only a dark room, can it be worked with without being tarnished, even by the exposure of a cellphone light can ruin an entire reem of paper. It was through cropping, and tediously using double sided tape, inside the light tight pinhole camera that I constructed, that I adhered them to all sides of the camera, pierced pin-head diameter holes through the corresponding sides of paper, covered those sides with black electrical tape, and carried carefully the camera to the site of exposure, and it was left to capture a series of images within the time span of 1 minute to 3 minutes, depending on the intensity of light throughout the day.
What I find most profound, is that the images produced inside this camera are unpredictable. The light in the space that I had captured, had never been seen like that before. I ran multiple series of tests and runs. Different times of day, different positions in it’s environment, and though sometimes I would try to see if I could get a duplicate of some images, it never worked. I think that it’s in this mystery is where the beauty is found. Put simply, these images produced are a metaphor for the unconscious mind. The journey of anxiety and depression is never the same for each who struggle, we each are our own star in the galaxy, we matter, and so do our stories. Our journey, be it from darkness to light, look different to each, and should architecturally be treated in the same thoughtful, and unique way.