Beautiful filming of sparklers through a photographic enlarger’s condenser lens. The tiny house on Beaumont Avenue in Plymouth was the studio space for a lot of experimentation in the 1990s. This was filmed in the upper front room which served as studio and office space.
I had been experimenting with lenses to create an aerial image in front of a projector for transferring to video without filming the projected image on a white wall or piece of paper. The filming is spectacular, what’s less obvious are the small autobiographical elements. At the time I was spending a lot of time in photographic darkrooms, developing, printing and teaching. Some of the paraphernalia made it home such as the enlargers’ condenser lenses.