![Snow Globe [exterior and interior views]wood, hardware, house paint, optical lenses2007 6’6”x4’6”x4’6”
The structure of my Snow Globe camera obscura is a box 1.4m x 1.4m x 2m in size with a door so the viewer can enter the camera. Unlike a traditional camera obscura, mine has 5 lenses, one on each of the 4 walls and one on the ceiling. These 5 lenses project their images onto a smaller box, approximately 20cm in size, in the center of the camera obscura, where they combine to create a sculpture out of light.
I have chosen to install in interior spaces because I am interested in the inversion of the space, both the physical inversion and the psychological inversion. Physically the interior walls of the public space are projected onto the exterior of a small box inside the camera obscura. Windows that normally look out into the world now look into the box, and the world appears to be inside. Now we have a private view of the public space, an internalization of the world.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz1civvctn1qb9g6so1_500.jpg)
Snow Globe [exterior and interior views]
wood, hardware, house paint, optical lenses
2007 6’6”x4’6”x4’6”
The structure of my Snow Globe camera obscura is a box 1.4m x 1.4m x 2m in size with a door so the viewer can enter the camera. Unlike a traditional camera obscura, mine has 5 lenses, one on each of the 4 walls and one on the ceiling. These 5 lenses project their images onto a smaller box, approximately 20cm in size, in the center of the camera obscura, where they combine to create a sculpture out of light.
I have chosen to install in interior spaces because I am interested in the inversion of the space, both the physical inversion and the psychological inversion. Physically the interior walls of the public space are projected onto the exterior of a small box inside the camera obscura. Windows that normally look out into the world now look into the box, and the world appears to be inside. Now we have a private view of the public space, an internalization of the world.
