Tezos

2025-05-22

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Resolution: 1080x1080 Format: PNG Hardware: Android Pixel 8 Software: Artist's own Algorithm: dark These things do not move, or should not, at least. In the image, they are moving, by the hand that holds the camera. What should we consider motion? They are not moving relative to the ground, though the whole planet, of which the ground can be considered part of, is rotating and moving rapidly through space. Well, when we say moving, that too is a relative motion. The planet rotates around the sun, the sun is moving relative to other stars. Einstein shows us that there is no absolute "stillness" to be found. Can we consider any movement non-relative? The concept of "up" radiates from the center of the planet outwards, but even this is a local convention on a moving platform. Back to our photo. It is easy to assume I am moving the camera, but can we not just as easily consider, in line with the core principles of relativity, that the camera is static and the whole universe has moved relative to it? Not just that, but we are also considering projective geometry here. The camera moves in Euclidean space, but the view of that space is a perspective one. And this is where I think the intentionality may lay, as I have always been fascinated with perspective and these projective views, in the physical world and the digital. Rotating around a subject like a pylon does funky things to the intersecting angles in different planes – a direct consequence of the laws of perspective projection. This feels part of something I am intuitively studying here: the complex projective forms in the world, as defined by geometric principles, that we can observe as we move through time and space. The act of algorithmically recording these shapes in a form that doesn't just blur everything together, instead maintaining a visual cohesion from a careful implementation of the algorithm and sensitive operation of the camera, allows for a kind of temporal unfolding of these perspectives.

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