My interest in hologaphy began while I was a post doc in Engineering at UCLA. The practice of holography is as much an art as a science, as understanding the physics behind holography doesn't insure that one can make a good hologram. From the 1970's through the 1990's I practiced both the technical art of holography and holography as an artistic medium of expression. I am including below a few examples of my art holography during this period. All of these holograms were made on apparatuses of my design. For those interested in the more technical aspects of my work, please click here
In this still life I employed various optics ( a cylindrical lens, a multifaceted glass sphere, a concave mirror, and several plane front-surface mirrors) as integrtal elements of the overall composition. The holographic medium encourages the viewer to examine the space from various perspectives. In the work I have attempted to incorporate conceptual ties to the past. For example, reflections in the small concave mirror are reminescent of anamorphic distortions popular in painting and graphics in the 17th and 18th century.
The hologram was exhibited in 1988 in Images in Time and Space, an International holography exhibit at its Los Angeles, California venue.
This hologram was exhibited in 1988 and 1992 in Images in Time and Space, an International holography exhibit at its Los Angeles and Santa Monica California venues. To my knowledge "Night Sky" was the first mixed media work combining photography and holography to be shown in either a gallery or museum setting. In the piece the stars appear in depth behind the clouds in the photograph,- as they would in real life.