Stephanie Hand

The project Obscured draws on the historical process of the Camera Obscura, challenging and portraying the ideas of the interconnectedness of time and space. The three video projections are from a personal lens, looking out at my childhood bedroom, capturing the space that has provided me with solace throughout my life. The intention of these videos is to consider the ways in which time overlaps reflecting the collected experiences within a place.

The work is made via the historical process of the Camera Obscura. The camera Obscura is a light-catching, light-controlling process that transforms sunlight into a projection, bringing the exterior into the enclosed space. The light is filtered into the darkened space through a small opening, mimicking the mechanism of analogue photography. The image the Obscura projects is upside down and inverted, creating a sense of temporal distortion and uncertainty as time progresses. The space of the installation is silent, emulating the feeling of being inside the camera Obscura, providing a space of reflection, a space of solace.