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The Blue Flame - a
jet-propelled car.
While beating the world record of speed on land (1970) it reached the
speed of 1009,492 km/h.
Speculation (1)
HORIZON camera is turning around the
axis of the lens/aperture turn.
Pictures taken with three different seed of rotating HORIZON camera.
Speculation (3),
it considers all possible movements of the objects and the camera:
to the right, to the left, upwards, downwards, approaching, withdrawing,
rotary to the left, rotary to the right, rotary frontwards, rotary
backwards, steady, accelerated, variable, simultaneous, unsimultaneous,
chaotic.
(several possible situations).
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I can see things. I
photograph things. I
compare what I see with what my camera sees. The camera's eye - the
mechanical eye - confirms what I see. Things look similar.
So I am not asleep. I have no hallucinations.
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The starting point of this reassuring argument is the fact that the
photo camera is a model of the human eye. The camera sees in a similar
way, although as a machine it does not blow hot and cold, and has no
hallucinations.
It is an "objective" witness.
Hence the extraordinary power of photography. The world and photography,
as its mechanical reproduction, are directly and logically related with
one another.
In 1970 I
asked myself a question:
how does the world of a thinking being,
whose eye works in a different way, look like ?
One of such beings is the camera HORIZON.
The way in
which this being sees is related
in a dramatic way to the notion of the time continuum, as opposed to the
momentary, "flicker" type of seeing, typical of the human
being. HORIZON does not know what "Augenbick" means. It
registers moving objects in a way which is at variance with human logic,
although it photographs the material world, common to all the thinking
beings.
Drawing on
my theoretical investigations I have come to the conclusion that an
object which moves at the speed of 432 km/h, from west to east (from
left to right), and passes HORIZON at a distance of 6 meters, will be
recorded as an object moving in the opposite direction, from east to
west (from right to left), and all the elements of the object will be
reversed as in a mirror image. It is only the moving object that will be
reversed. The unmoving background will be registered in accordance with
the reality of the human eye.
The objects which move faster will not only be reversed, but also their
dimensions will be shortened in proportion to their speed.
The objects which move slower will be reversed or will not be reversed -
their sizes will fluctuate between the "real" dimension and
the dimension, the limit of which is infinity.
The view of the objects will get fantastically complicated when we move
from the rigid distance of 6 meters, and let the objects move not only
from west to east, not only along the stright line, and not only with a
fixed, unchanging speed.
A series of
practical tests confirmed my conjectures.
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HORIZON draws different conclusions from its observations of the world.
The logic of the HORIZON camera cannot be accepted by human beings.
HORIZON generates philosophy with which it is impossible to negotiate.
The world vision offered by HORIZON is in conformity with the human
vision only in the case of the low speed movements of the objects in
motion. When their, or the observer's, speed grows, both visions go
their separate ways.
What is for
one being pure nonsense or experience from the world of dreams, for
another being that observes the world by means of a different eye can
become a sensible, coherent, realistic and practical vision. That other
being, functioning in the material world, is capable of generating
statements which human beings have to reject as nonsense.
And vice versa - human statements can be nonsense for the HORIZON camera.
Both can accuse each other of hallucinating.
HORIZONT
Kölnischer Kunstverein / DAAD
Kolonia / Berlin 1981
EXHIBITIONS:
- Mała Galeria ZPAF, Warszawa
- FV Gallery, Kraków
- Foto-Medium-Art Gallery, Wroclaw
- Polish Photography
tour exhibition in Japan
- Akumulatory 2 Gallery, Poznań
- Kolnischer Kunstverein, Köln
- Erweiterte Fotografie, Wienna
- Ostranenie - Bauhaus Dessau
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