There are some projects that start out as one thing and then seem to morph into something else all together.
This was one of those.
A still from On Wrecker's Ball, Digital Pepper's Ghost Installation.
Trish (Patricia Cain) first approached me, by email, around the end of August 2010. She had used a 3D drawing tool developed by John Stell of Leeds University, that allowed gestural drawings to be created using a tracked 3D mouse, a project that unfortunately, had since been discontinued, and she had thoughts of doing something similar for her Kelvingrove exhibition that would open in April 2011.
A couple of weeks later, we met here, at my studio, where I gave her a demo of my 3D stereo system and Present3D, the software that we (myself and Robert Osfield) have developed to produce 3D shows. But this wasn't really what she wanted, and from her description " to be presented, not on a screen, but onto a plinth" I suggested that perhaps a variation on a Pepper's Ghost might be worth exploring... she agreed and so things began...
The rest of the process is sort of summarised in my written piece for the catalogue :
Nothing is Fixed, Nothing is Final...
by phil lavery
As I write this, nothing is fixed, nothing is final, there is only the process. A process that started with an email, a meeting and an idea.
