Paternoster

into the holographic landscape, Center for the Holographic Arts, New York September 2006
Ex Tempore, The Stairwell Gallery, Melbourne November 2006
through the holographic gaze, Gallery 175, Seoul November 2010

The hologram Paternoster which captures the sensation and imaginative response of riding a paternoster . The image is vertically animated and installed so as to encourage the viewer into a vertigous action. This resonance of virtual movement and actual movement plays into a complex sense of place and the body.

Paternoster is strongly anchored, and the movement is linear which makes the image very readable. The scene is of an elevator box moving on a shaft through three openings. This grounding volume of the open elevator box, sets-up the image-space.  The illusion of space inside the box comes from point perspective. The sense of the shaft is created by vertical parallax amplifying the viewer’s movement. The three levels that the elevator moves through are replaced by expansive landscapes. It is a non-sensical architecture, an expanded imagination. 

The combine affect produces a sensation of ascending or descending. The photographer and viewer experience this vertical motion while being held together by the image.

© Martina Mrongovius