apparition on main street

apparition on main street

2019

traffic cone, transparent film, strobe light

https://vimeo.com/401137021

Drawing from the history of illusion-making, the traffic cone has been transformed into a pseudo-phenakistoscope. With the assistance of a strobing light and a consistent spin, the individual frames pasted onto the traffic cone depict running figures in a perpetual cycle. The object hovers as a chandelier, a searchlight, a ghost of a space once present and a space yet to come.