Textilograph #1 by Clement Valla

Textilograph #12019

Video (color, silent), screen or projectorDimensions variable, portrait orientation 29 min 10 sec, loopEdition of 3, 1 AP

Textilograph #1 inverts the typical relationship between the picture plane and landscape. Here rocks scanned from Shingle Creek, Utah; Devil's Den Preserve, Connecticut; Bear Mountain, New York; and Hunter Island, New York are projected as images onto a flat surface. In this environment, a simulated canvas is dragged across scans of rocky outcroppings, ledges, and rock faces. The resulting videos abandon perspective—the video becomes a slow 1:1 translation of the surface of the rock onto the surface of the screen through the intermediary of a simulated soft, yielding picture plane.

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