TWIN PROJECTORS

TWIN PROJECTORS consists of two slide projectors overlaying images from film slides on top of one another in real time. One of the projector consists of slides that depict microscopic captures of organic/ biological material, while the other projector rotates through photos that one would typically expect to see on slide film such as family and slice of life photos. The photo slides that feature microscopic images are a collection of slides prepared by the artist using different material and samples from the body in addition to old microscope slides from the Mellon Institute. This layering creates real time, analogue visual effects and distortions to the slide images when viewed in person in the gallery or during installation.

The piece explores techniques for creating live special effects and visuals using antiquated technology. More specifically it investigates opacity and transparency through the overlaying of projections, the juxtaposition of which explore several different conceptual dichotomies. The imagery on the slides of the carousels which consist of scientific slides of old lab images from the Mellon Institute, scientific educational slides, and microscopic imagery produced from my own body hopes to add a mix of coldness but intimacy to the familial imagery. The overlapping of these two types of imagery creates a strange form of a generational family portrait and also a collection of abandoned imagery. The real time effects created explore many contrasts such as analogue tangibility vs digital, static fact vs alteration and distortion, and physical flesh and blood vs familial blood.

This project was made possible with support of the Frank-Ratchye Further Fund Microgrant #2024-068. Additional images can be found here.