by AinsleyFrancis | Feb 12, 2012
A series of cameo engravings based on photographs that taken in museums of the reflections of visitors in the glass cases that hold the displays. This reflection represents the museum system itself, with our personal and cultural self-perceptions interceding with the objects on display. We are incapable of looking at the objects through the eyes of the people who used them, and often, we don’t even notice that we project our own meaning onto them. Our culture, like the glass, is invisible to us, except for certain angles, and we can easily forget the influence that it has on our perceptions. To translate these images from photos into engraved glass, the viewer, the object being viewed, and the reflections become equalised, and the reflection is made a part of the object itself.
by AinsleyFrancis | Feb 28, 2011
A series of images I’ve been taking in the National Museum of Scotland, each of one object pictured 54 or 108 times. The images are layered so that the viewer sees all of them at once.
by AinsleyFrancis | Feb 28, 2011
A series of images taken in museums (below is the Louvre in Paris, France). I find it interesting to watch the reflections of people in the glass cases that hold objects in a museum, it seems to me to represent the museum system itself, with our personal and cultural self-perceptions interceding with the objects on display. We are incapable of looking at the objects through the eyes of the people who used them, and often, we don’t even notice that we project our own meaning onto them. Our culture, like the glass, is invisible to us, except for certain angles, and we can easily forget the influence that it has on our perceptions.
by AinsleyFrancis | Feb 28, 2010
by AinsleyFrancis | Feb 12, 2010
