OB_031 — Progressive Light Perforation
Status
Status:: Finished
1. Operation Data
Internal number: OB_031
Operating regime: Direct Material Intervention
Source image: Input 001.jpg.webp — technical image of a ball.
Operational description:
The technical image is printed on paper and progressively perforated with a pointed pencil. The print is placed in front of a computer screen with a white background and photographed in each state: the light passes through the perforations and transforms the continuity of the image into a grid of dots, apertures, and areas of transparency.
2. Tools and Procedure
Tools / medium:
- Paper print of the technical image
- Pointed pencil
- Computer screen with a white background
- Camera for recording
Technical procedure:
Perforate the print cumulatively with the tip of the pencil. After each stage of perforation, place the paper in front of a white screen and photograph the light passing through the support. The sequence preserves fourteen selected states of the intervention.
Script: Not applicable.
3. Variables
Controlled variables:
- Perforating tool: pointed pencil.
- Luminous background: white screen.
- Cumulative order of the perforations.
Uncontrolled / accidental variables:
- Size, edge, and tearing of the paper around each perforation.
- Variations in position, reflection, and exposure during photographic recording.
4. Visual Sequence
Initial image
Step 01
Step 02
Step 03
Step 04
Step 05
Step 06
Step 07
Step 08
Step 09
Step 10
Step 11
Step 12
Step 13
5. Visual Selection
Crisis / threshold according to AI-assisted reading / ChatGPT
Step 08
Crisis / threshold according to my perception
Step 10
6. Crisis and Formal-Perceptual Reading
Main crisis: Pending selection.
The operation affects the visual grammar of the image: shape, contour, color, figure/ground relationship, legibility, recognition, and support:
The perforation turns the support into an active part of the image. The white light passes through the open dots and replaces fragments of the figure with luminous emptiness; upon accumulation, the holes interrupt contours, destabilize the figure/ground relationship, and cause the ball to lose continuity and recognition.
7. Final Evaluation and Artistic Reference
Operation notes / what I learned:
Pending review.
Final_status:
Works:: SI
How it destroys the image:
Works_on:: Configurative
Level and Richness of crisis:
Crisis:: Low
Decision:
Selection:: Combinable
Potential Artistic Reference
Reference:: Raymond Hains Sans, Alberto Burri, Antoni Tàpies, Jacques Villegle, Mimmo Rotella,
Possible works: