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# Project Description stacking sanding standing seconds Macy Wong Prior Summary Final work College Camberwell College of Arts Course BA (Hons) Fine Art: Drawing Graduation year 2025 I am interested in analogue processes, in time, in chance and accident, in counting seconds, in the history of photography, in searching, looking, finding, in collecting and keeping, in images and in image making. I build cardboard pinhole cameras from scratch, then carry these cameras around looking to capture moments in time. When the shutter is opened, light passes in front of and through my pinhole camera, and it strikes the silver halide coat of my film, initiating a chemical reaction and forming the visible image. I use objects that shine and emit light to imitate silver, recalling this fundamental material in analogue photographic processes. By making photos and cameras for the past few years, pre-visualising the image I want to create, an internal light meter has evolved in my brain - accounting for the sun, assessing the light, when it goes behind the clouds, when I feel enough time has passed, and the shutter should be closed. There is no definite way of predicting the outcome of light, movement and time. Intuition has built inside of me to guide the image, but it is a matter of luck between the interval of exposure and the resulting image.Making objects that resemble cameras to recapture the still moment of the pinhole camera, drawing viewers in to a slow act of observation. Cutting down, sanding, finishing and polishing my wood to a soft, shiny surface - the surface of the wood becomes like the surface of a photo; smooth, slightly reflective. I find it difficult not to be interested in the architecture of Hong Kong. I didn’t think the towering buildings were interesting to me. They are a part of the city, the landscape, homes to thousands. Only until I look back on all the photos I have taken does it become clear. I thought I was just taking photos as I was walking, mindless, intuitively, slowly finding a connection to a culture that has felt so far away. I knew I didn’t really try to take pinhole photos of people - the long exposures, trying to take candid photos, people move, and it feels awkward. I was always subconsciously drawn to these tall structures. Fragments of life, looking in from down below. I become curious, a window into daily life climbing high into the sky, wanting to look in, to capture the hues of light emitting at night. Solidifying my images by making them sculptural objects, vertically stacking modular blocks mimicking the sky risers. Making memories of my trips tangible by objectifying my images to physical objects, I mount circular images created by my circular pinhole, with circular-headed pins, into modular wooden blocks. The circle has become a window to look throughand reflect, obscured realities of precious time, experiencing and finding a connection to Hong Kongcaptured by my pinhole cameras. Final work stacking sanding standing seconds Share this project I am interested in analogue processes, in time, in chance and accident, in counting seconds, in the history of photography, in searching, looking, finding, in collecting and keeping, in images and in image making. I build cardboard pinhole cameras from scratch, then carry thes... A link to this page has been added to your clipboard
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