When shooting the dancers feet it lead me to think about how the camera became a mirror of the dancer and dance. It was part of the dance and became part of the art, it was no longer a camera recording events it was almost a sculpture reflecting the dancer and becoming par of the Dance.
I wanted to explore this idea further and explore how the camera could be used as a sculpture, I experimented using a large piece of magnifying glass, it looked like a huge contact lens.
It created really interesting effects, it not only distorted the image i was shooting but enlarging areas of the image, bringing some into focus and distorting others. it also drew in lots of reflections from the different angles of the glass.
I really enjoyed this experimentation but I feel it doesn't fit with the rest of my work, it has a very different feel and doesn't quite work as part of the body of work.
I would like to continue this idea and look more into using the camera a a sculpture and creating an empathy between the camera and subject but I will explore that as part of a different body of work.
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