To accurately record the salient features of a space one must detach themselves from the environment in which they are standing. When transforming our world from the three dimensional into a representation the recorder unwittingly interprets what he or she finds of most interest and records it as such.
It is the intention through this piece of equipment to detach the user from their surroundings in a way that will force them to record the space in its most literal and pragmatic.
Sitting between a camera lucida, and camera obscura and a sedan chair, this portable device acts as a means to render visible the otherwise unnoticed in a way that takes away the opportunity for subjective interpretation.
In practical terms the device performs an optical superimposition of the subject being viewed upon the surface upon which the recorder is drawing. The recorder sees both scene and drawing surface simultaneously, as in a photographic double exposure.
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| instrument 001 set up in the studio |
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| inside instrument 001 |
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| drawings of studio |
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| instrument 001 set up on University of Dundee campus |
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| inside instrument 001 |
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| the group |
