Imagination & photocopier

Can office photocopiers, especially color copy machines, become an artist's creative tool? OK! If you have the imagination of a poet.

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Birds are flying

In 1952, graduate student Thomas Eisner of Harvard University drove throughout the United States for two months with his colleague Edward O. Wilson to visit the country and insects. For half a century later, Dr. Eisner - now an outstanding professor at Cornell University (USA), continued his journey in the world of entomology, evolutionary biology, environmental chemistry and bio-conservation. Thai

Dr. Eisner is famous not only for his studies but also for the eyes of the artist through his images of insects with scientific optical devices and electron scanners. Dr. Eisner's miraculous and poetic images of images have been compiled into the famous For love of insects published in 2003. Biological scholarship knowledge goes hand in hand with technology. His science of photography has led people to call him "the poet of insects ".

In recent years, Parkinson's disease has prompted Dr. Eisner to explore the possibilities of a new tool to capture the image of the natural world: a color photocopier. This very popular office device for him " could serve to produce creative images, to experiment with novel image layouts, and with that ability to be applied in manifest anomalous fantasies ".

The pictures on this Discover pages are not scientific photographs but are artistic products of Dr. Eisner. He placed three-dimensional objects found in nature such as flowers, leaves, shells . into a color photocopier to weight Picture 2 of Imagination & photocopier

Wings of birds flying

o produce images that are full of love for nature and life. Arranging shells in unusual shapes, Eisner also created a world of wild creatures from Cornell University photocopier.

Where did these images come from?"I just imagine how the composition of the composition will fit together," Dr. Eisner wrote on his website, "and arranged the objects according to what was envisioned. It's like playing Lego puzzles. but". There are only two conditions required. The composition of the composition must be arranged face down under the photocopier glass because these machines only " look " from the bottom up. Once the arrangement is complete, a black cloth is applied over the objects so that the outside light does not enter the image.

Dr. Eisner thinks that photocopiers can be very helpful for children, for adults who are nursing, or anyone who is restricted from moving and being exposed to nature. These color photocopiers can create unexpected images, far beyond our imagination.

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