Optical Chapel
Optical Chapel is a contemplative space built inside the experience of too much information.
Too much information.
My practice has focused on perception and the biological and cultural factors that shape how each of us constructs a shared reality. I made Optical Chapel as a place to pause inside that density.
Build the space.
The installation used 11,000 4 × 6 photographs and took 135 hours to construct. It was shown in The F Stops Here during FotoFest 2012.
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The curved exterior walls of Optical Chapel covered with a dense repeating photographic pattern, with the blue interior visible through a doorway.
David A. Brown
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A close view into a corner of Optical Chapel, showing hundreds of repeated architectural and landscape photographs.
David A. Brown
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A shallow-focus view along the layered walls of repeated photographs inside Optical Chapel.
David A. Brown
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A doorway joining the darker blue interior pattern and the lighter geometric exterior pattern of Optical Chapel.
David A. Brown