Vik Muniz. Sandcastle
#10, Series of Sandcastles. Photograph. 2014.
I choose this piece because I found the light sketch of the
castle against the dark, textured background interesting. While the image is
appealing, it wasn’t until I did further research on the piece that I was
amazed. This image is actually a magnified photograph of a single grain of sand
in which Vik Muniz, with help of Marcelo Coelho, engraved his sketch. The process
in which they did this is extremely interesting to me as Muniz used the camera
lucida, which is a 19th century device used before photography was
invented to sketch objects placed in front of you. With this sketch, Marcelo
Coelho used a Focused Ion Beam to etch
the sketch into the actual grain of sand. The magnified picture was then taken
and printed as a 71x86 9/10 inch photograph.
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