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Portrait II

By Simon Read 2006

Simon Read

Dimensions
100cm x 100cm

Made to explore the nature of time in a scanned image acknowledging its ultimate status as a complete object on the wall. Made using a hand-built camera to scan a subject in a circular fashion, clockwise, or like an old-fashioned radar.
S R Simon Read

To Forgotten Fleets

Memory and the Tideline

Boulters Weir

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