I was drawn to the tumescence of some of Victor Vasarely’s op-art—our muse for The Kick-About No.112—that slight sense they give of deformations produced by swelling—of blisters, goitres, galls and burls.
I’ve got these big glass paper-weight things that are filled with suspended bubbles, and these images began with me filming them on my 4K webcam as I spun them through 360 degrees… I was then able to process the footage through various types of layering and manipulation to produce these resulting images. This first set reminds me so much of some of the psychedelic special-effects in the ‘innerspace’ movie, Fantastic Voyage – you know, the one in which Donald Pleasance gets eaten by a white blood cell…”
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