A 10-metre long, polished metal 'scope' is suspended in the air, directed towards a large video projection of the sun's surface. Behind an eyepiece lens at the opposite end of the scope a small LCD screen shows a black and white version of the same image held behind a hairline 'target' marker, as though mediated by unseen technology within the viewing device. This small screen periodically returns the gaze of the viewer with that of a grotesquely cataracted eye; a sudden, shocking denial of the extended reach implicit in the magnified view of the sun.
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Eden Proclaimed, Eden Rescinded
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Two light boxes [ 290 x 2000 x 160 mm] associated with the installation Flare/Cataract:
Funding and exhibition details
Funded by Sheffield Cultural Festival 1992
for exhibition in the film studio of co-sponsors Sheffield Independent Film Ltd
Production assistants: Mark Purcell, Frances Hegarty
Thanks to Hal Zirin, Big Bear Solar Observatory, Pasadena CA, U.S.A.
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