Shadow Art: Tim Noble and Sue Webster

 

Tim Noble and Sue Webster make arrangements of objects such as rubbish and taxidermy animals, and then project a light onto them.  This casts a shadow onto the wall, revealling an image.  The objects are arranged in a certain way so that their collective shadows make up the image of something else, often self portraits.

Sunset Over Manhattan, 2003

 

I think this is a really clever way of creating an image.  I like how each object is placed in a certain way and even though the sculptures can look like a pile of random objects they each make up the details in the shadow.

 

 

                                                                Real Life Is Rubbish, 2002

                                                  
                                                                           Falling Apart, 2001

 

  Dirty White Trash (with Gulls) 1998

 

 

 

 

 

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