My intentions for this project are to utilize several panels of Plexiglass or some similar transparent and rigid material, and to paint progressively farther layers of an environment on them. The hindmost would depict the sky and horizon, for example, then some forested hills at the feet of the mountains on the horizon, then closer and closer until the last panel features an object or creature several inches away from the viewer. These panels would also be sized on a gradient, nearest-smallest to farthest-largest. This is to ensure that when the piece is viewed as intended (from very close and looking directly at the smallest panel), foreshortening makes all the panels appear to be the same size.
Depicted on these panels would be a prehistoric setting, some time during the Cretaceous. I want some sort of Azhdarchid pterosaurs to appear in the near distance, and maybe a small mammal in the foreground. There would also be a group of medium sized dinosaurs.
Another visual effect of this structure will be focus. Seen from the correct angle, you can only focus on one panel at a time, whether by eye or by camera (at least the one I work with), further contributing to the illusion of depth and distance.
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| Savannah Paper Project by Nick Meeuws |
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| from Armory Show by Xia Xiaowan |
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| Layered Landscape 2 by Nobuhiro Nakanishi |
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| My own drawings of the basic idea |
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