Device and Illusion, 2002, backlit lenticular photograph, 155 x 120 x 10cm
The image of an industrious artist’s studio - historically one of the key sites in the development of pictorial illusionism - is itself subjected to the highly illusionistic technology of lenticular photography. The resulting ‘device’ controls the viewer’s gaze as much as it fulfils a desire for three-dimensionality, whilst the relationship with the real is further dislodged by the knowledge that the scene in fact depicts a miniature table-top model.