Just a Sec
© 2015
Media: Lenticular print mounted on aluminum, edition of 12
Location: in an exhibition
Hover/tap here for Price $3,000
23 x 23 inches (58 x 58 cm)
A collaboration with Benton C Bainbridge
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For those of you with low vision:
This lenticular print is composed of small rectangles lined up in a grid, reminiscent of strips of movie film. Each rectangle depicts an abstract duochromatic image: a dark center, like a blur, that becomes larger and smaller as the viewer moves their head, shifts their perspective across the surface of the print, like a movement which was captured in the slow motion of a camera. All of the images in the grid start to move as the viewer comes within about 30 degrees of straight on, which dazzles ones’ perception as the images are locked in a grid and non-synchronized. Each image has a tight tolerance as to what angle of view produces what movement. The frames animate to reveal close-up imagery of Bainbridge’s fingers—in negative—against a bright light which becomes a dark center figure intersected with the calligraphy of an oscilloscope.
Carpenter chose Just a Sec from a 4-hour long visual performance by Bainbridge for this edition. The caliber of the print is rare—few lenticulars of such temporal detail (32 frames, covering just over 1 second of NTSC video) have ever been produced. Shortly after the run, Kodak closed the factory, eliminating that process.
