True to his favorite shape, the hemisphere or dome, in the summer of 2019 Chris Drury built TICKON's most resistant work, the Linden Cloud Chamber: A large camera obscura that looks like a small burial mound from the outside, and as such is also built around a wreath of large boulders.
A snail's pace leads the viewer into the work - because this is the very secret of the Linden Cloud Chamber - that the "camera house" is so large that you enter, close the door behind you and sit down on the small bench, ready to have a magical experience.
Within a few minutes, the image of the trees outside materializes on the round walls. Slowly, the contours become clearer and clearer, until the blue or gray of the sky, the brown of the trunks and the green of the leaves make themselves known.
The image is upside down and originates from a small lens in the ceiling of the room, which sends the light and thus the image down onto the white walls and the white floor – just as the pinhole in the shoe box will also compress the strip of light inside the box and form an image. In the box, however, the image will only be visible on a light-sensitive film.
But here inside the round, white room, you sit in the middle of the picture and can study the play of the wind with leaves and branches, drifting clouds, the golden glow of the sun on the tree trunks.
The more sun and light, the sharper the image. But even a gray winter day offers experiences.
Artist: Chris Drury See more of Drury's work here.
Year: 2019
Chris Drury is English, but born in Sri Lanka in 1948. Educated at Camberwell School of Art in England. His preferred form is the dome, the half-dome, which he has experimented with in works of art all over the world. Sometimes he ends all traces of his works himself, so that they only exist in photos for posterity. At other times his semi-domes, which are often modeled on the stupas of the East, are allowed to remain standing. Such as. his work, Linden Cloud Chamber, I TICKON.