The World’s Smallest Sandcastles Built on Individual Grains of Sand by Vik Muniz and Marcelo Coelho
Well, this sent me down a rabbit hole…
and then I learnt about the camera lucida and after learning about the praxinoscope from Jim Groom i am spoilt for choice of gadgets to play with. I think the camera lucida wins – it undermines notions of original artwork and what it means to copy, it shows us that artists through time have used devices that help the process, it speaks to the relationship between art and technology and can buy me a portable one today! I do not need to invest in an antique:
Wow! History and me have not always been best friends…could it be that as well as challenging my preconceptions on art and artefacts DS106 will also teach me to love history?
I am ordering me a camera lucida and playing with it…I know, I can do that with layers. But a tool that was used to build a sandcastle in a grain of sand? How can I say no?
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