Real Fiction
2007
Installation: Digital image projection, waterslide decal paper on desk, inkjet printed book.
An image of a forest is projected over a desk on which there is a book. On closer inspection it becomes clear that the projected image contains the book and desk, almost but not quite lined up with the actual desk and book. When the projection is blocked, light from the forest appears to remain on the desk and book. If the book is lifted from the desk-top, a book shaped gap exposes the play of light on the desk surface to be a printed illusion.
Real Fiction was created by taking a blank exercise book and a desk to Epping Forest. There the book’s pages were photographed in sequence. The desk was photographed from the front and above when the book was open at the centre spread. These images are used to overlay the desk with it’s own representation via projection and the application of an inkjet printed waterslide decal paper to the desk’s surface.
The work explores the rational fact of the illusion created in relation to the emotional fiction it evokes and an interest in the book as an internal and external space.
