Sometimes light, a place or an objects calls forth memories and emotions, pushing one towards the unknown.
'Since 1996 Marja Pirilä have made many different kind of camera obscuras in Finland and abroad.
These works combine camera obscura phenomenon either to constructions with different shapes, materials and sizes or to everyday objects. The common thing for them all is that the outside world is reflected upside down through the lenses on mat glass, acryl or tracing paper. This camera obscura phenomenon is like a cubistic video which changes all the time according to the light changes and movements in the world in front of and around of them.'
I really like her idea of experimenting with shapes, materials and sizes of camera obscura; which makes other shapes and gives us totally different way to look on our surrounding. Basically its shows how our eyes works which out our 'brain editor'. Sound quite funny but that's true. Without this tiny system in our brain we suppose to see everything upside down.
Camera obscura is kind of our brainless eye.
Going back to Marja Piriläs Camera obscura - interior / exterior series which speaks by itself. But the original thought to create these pictures was born of a nocturnal insigh (in a room transformed into a camera obscura). Pirila have found out that she can on the same piece of film, capture a person, his/her room and the landscape going through the windows. Which means to portray the living environment of a human being!
The photographs began to take form not only as the living environment of a human being, but also of the landscapes of the mind: reflections of thoughts, dreams, fears and reveries.
No comments:
Post a Comment