The fourth dimension


  • Photographer
    Weronika Elertowska
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Company/Studios
    none
  • Date of Photograph
    04.2014 - 05.2014
  • Technical Info
    135 x 90 cm inkjet prints

Source of the inspiration for my project was a book "The fourth dimension" written by Pyotr Demianovich Uspensky. The simplicity and the minimalism of photographs are referring to survey methods of the fourth dimension described by Uspiensky. Peculiarly I concentrated on research methods developed by Charles Hinton. In my photographs I am using objects as if were stage props or models - is their role to free spectators from the diktat of the prospect. Behind their agency I am trying to make an attempt to conduct analysis of outlines by which we are guided thinking and observing reality.

Story

The starting point for the presented photographs has become a test of issues associated with comprehending the fourth dimension. I am trying to analyze the outline of the subjective thinking / vision - the human eye is an extremely imperfect instrument. What we are calling the prospect is only a deformation of seen objects, caused by the badly built optical mechanism. We can see deformed objects, as this way as for oneself we are depicting them. How to see things as they really are, not as they seem to be? How to avoid the deformation of world which our eye is surrendering, to see apart from the prospect?
Perhaps the reply is hidden in the letter written by the prisoner of the Shlisselburg stronghold. In the note to his fellow-prisoners Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov claimed that in order to comprehend the fourth dimension we should look first at shadows appearing on the surface of the Ladoga lake. When we will imagine, in what way shadows of swallows could see us and world which is surrounding us, we will find also a key to understanding what is hidden behind the fourth dimension.
Synthetic form of abstract objects being in photographs, their seemingly monochrome colours are referring to mathematical series of exercises and solids created by Charles Hinton.
Solids which are undergoing analysis, geometrical fantasies.
Solids which are giving to permeate themselves, revealing their higher dimension.

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