So, there's a focus on making perfect reproductions in the holography community (scientists, technologists and hobbyists).  Full-colour analogue holographic masterpieces are often made of low cost items which don't warrant the resources that have gone into turning them into holograms.  If you consider the amount of time and money that goes into holographic perfection then the only objects worth reproducing are the beautiful and expensive Fabergé eggs that have been 'optocloned'. 

I'm not really interested in 'perfect' though for my next project: My full colour holographic family.  This work will exploit the mess that making full colour holograms with basic equipment will lead to. I am going to make split beam rather than the usual single beam full colour holograms, so my colours will overlap as different wavelengths reconstruct in different places. 

The beams won't be spatially filtered either, so there will be all sorts of spots and swirls of different colours enlarged through my lenses.

Consider the imperfection of Warhol's flowers https://collections.artsmia.org/art/67869/flowers-andy-warhol.  This is not bad screen printing.  This is beautiful.  This is what I'm hoping for.  I'll be using overlapping layers of colour using light instead of ink. 

I'm delighted to have had my first journal paper published. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/8/3/117. Many thanks to www.apepper.com for the invitation to submit a paper.

I've won!

Yay!  I won a Talent Development Bursary to enable me to learn how to make full colour holograms!

Time

Back to work.  Long break.  Must remember to tell Benedict Carpenter this:  "Time and Memory merge into each other; they are like the two sides of a medal."  Tarkovsky, A. (1986) Sculpting in Time:  Reflections on the Cinema, Faber & Faber, London. P.57.

Showing Artwork in St Petersburg

I've just returned from a fantastic ISDH2015 in St.Petersburg where I delivered a paper, Co-Chaired the first day's Session - Culture, Education and History of Holography - and am exhibiting work in the accompanying Holography exhibition at the Optics Museum of the ITMO University.

My Hologram 'Portrait: Great Grandmother' a 4x5cm reflection hologram with digital photograph on the far right of the cabinet was in good company here with work by August Muth and Andrew Pepper.

 

Virtual Artist Evaluation Wordle

Evaluating artwork

As part of my PhD studies at De Montfort University I have to evaluate the 'Virtual Artist' exhibition which ran between 26 August – 26 September 2014 at the University of Southampton’s Hartley Library.  My research explores ways in which time and space are represented in artwork using Holography and Lenticular Imaging and how audiences understand, respond to and remember the images which have been displayed – even after some time as passed.

Participants who were willing to give their feed back will have their anonymised research data held by myself for up to five years with any personal information given considered confidential.

The names of those who are willing to complete the evaluation will be put in a prize draw and the name selected at random will have a hologram made from a family photograph.  

For any further information do please get in touch via my website - or blog.