My original project statement was rather vague.
In this project I'm going to turn my photographs into three dimensional objects. This could be done by, for example, connecting 4 triangular photographs into a triangular pyramid. I will not do that, I will bring my photographs into three dimensional space in a sense, but really I will be changing the properties of the two dimensional space they occupy.
My intent is to create hyperbolic photographs. They will not depict hyperbolic space, rather they will exist in a hyperbolic plane. The best example of this is hyperbolic crochet; it is very much like the form my photographs will take.
A requirement of the project is that the photograph extend into the z-axis more than just the thickness of the paper that it is printed on. In our world, because space is linear, we will perceive these images as three dimensional objects. My interest in this form because these images will not technically occupy three dimensions, rather, they will occupy only two, but those two dimensions, rather than being linear, will be hyperbolic. That is my goal.
The subject matter will be rather simple for this project. One, a large rock, will be used for it's lifelessness. The hyperbolic form is unique in this world to organic life forms. it is not seed anywhere else. This rock makes sense also because it is space filling. The space filling depiction of it will reflect that volume.
Another image will be of a brick wall with moss growing out of the mortar. This image makes sense because it juxtaposes the hyperbolic form of the moss with the crystalline structure of the brick. Both these objects have volume, but for different reasons. The moss could be considered as existing on a two dimensional hyperbolic plane, while the brick obviously exists in a three dimensional linear plane.
There are other images that may be included as well.
I intend to print these images either on canvas using a duotone silk screen process that will be sewn together into a hyperbolic form or onto matte photo paper that will be folded into hyperbolic forms. Both methods will consist of considerable challenges and will be the focus of this project.
