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Dear List,
I've been trying to photograph a variation with anamorphoses using the instrument named "Mirage".
Here I attach my amateurish result at creating a projection of a marble with both "Pale Fire" and "Zembla" written on it.
From what we envision from the Zembla perspective, arises the virtual image with the label "Pale Fire" ( it works the other way round, too).
At the same time that we see the marble, we also find its reflection on the silvery surface it is resting upon ( unrelated to the other 3D phenomenon).
The black cover of the gadget, itself another kind of reflecting surface, informs the viewer about various external interferences ( such as ceiling lamps) which are also to be found on the silvery surface while we meet other external objects that are not above ( as the lamps) but below, on the table where the "Mirage" gadget is resting.
This image is a visual rendering of only a small part of what me may find when we read "Pale Fire", illustrating various kinds of mirror-effects that only double an object, but which might also recreate it in a "virtual field" that seems to be "outside", but it also carries "interferences" that might ( or might not) reveal other elements that sustain or mingle with the original "object". This is only a game. Words and VN's sentences in particular are a hundred times richer than that...
Jansy
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I've been trying to photograph a variation with anamorphoses using the instrument named "Mirage".
Here I attach my amateurish result at creating a projection of a marble with both "Pale Fire" and "Zembla" written on it.
From what we envision from the Zembla perspective, arises the virtual image with the label "Pale Fire" ( it works the other way round, too).
At the same time that we see the marble, we also find its reflection on the silvery surface it is resting upon ( unrelated to the other 3D phenomenon).
The black cover of the gadget, itself another kind of reflecting surface, informs the viewer about various external interferences ( such as ceiling lamps) which are also to be found on the silvery surface while we meet other external objects that are not above ( as the lamps) but below, on the table where the "Mirage" gadget is resting.
This image is a visual rendering of only a small part of what me may find when we read "Pale Fire", illustrating various kinds of mirror-effects that only double an object, but which might also recreate it in a "virtual field" that seems to be "outside", but it also carries "interferences" that might ( or might not) reveal other elements that sustain or mingle with the original "object". This is only a game. Words and VN's sentences in particular are a hundred times richer than that...
Jansy
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Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
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