The end result is the artist quite literally drawing with light,
creating ghostly images through a process that relies on both computers and the human hand.
Not exact matches
For the first time, scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a new type of lens that bends and focuses ultraviolet (UV) light in such an unusual way that it can
create ghostly, 3D
images of objects that float in free space.
These
ghostly images have been utilised as a smart design choice, to keep the player within the small world they have
created.
Here,
images take on a
ghostly quality: childish grimaces blend with the mechanical expressions of the faces of politicians,
creating a chamber of horrors of today.
In his erasure works, Simmons
creates drawings and then smudges the
image with his hands, rendering it a
ghostly reference of its former self; a reference laden with movement, memory, and the passage of time.
In these works from the 1990s, he used the technically difficult dye - transfer method to apply fragmentary photographic
images onto plaster and polylaminate panels to
create ghostly effects.
Often represented in hues of violets, blues and reds, Bracha's works offer abstracted configurations and spaces
created by the materiality of oil paint, ink, and the powered ash of photocopying dust, the undulation of light and shadow, and the traces of fragmented,
ghostly images that appear and disappear.
Working in photography, video and sculpture, Idris Khan layers appropriated
images taken from literature, religious texts, music scores, and other art works to
create ghostly visual interpretations of these materials that evoke considerations of time, authorship and
image - making.
Some works incorporate stylistic devices and subject matters that seem dated, passé or quasi-extinct; others capture traumatic moments of the historical past; some are recreations of previous works,
creating the sensation that they are pursued by a lost or distant original; there are
ghostly images and morbid symbols of the past as ruins and apocalyptic landscapes; and, finally, there are creations that analyze the role that archives play in collective memory and personal obsession.
The artist explores language and the human perception of the
image — and presence within it —
creating seemingly
ghostly temporal after -
images of the ground that many have walked before him, embedded with a history that helped form the very compositions themselves.
Creating a fabulous
ghostly mirror by antiquing it and adding a phantom
image is easier than you may think and
creates a very spooky Halloween effect.