64 projections
Peter d’Agostino © 1965-70/2019
Digital video from 35mm slides Preview: 3 of 8min loop Edition: 5+2 AP
The first image I photographed that became the basis for 64 projections was of light streaming through the oculus of the Pantheon in Rome. The slides from that year in Italy (1965-66) and those that followed in New York (1966-68), and my initial years in San Francisco (1968-70) formed a database of images for the project. I arrived at 64 images by sorting through hundreds of slides focusing on light in a wide array of contexts - from natural settings to TV screens - photographed with different 35mm photo film stocks – color, BW, infrared, etc. The basic strategy was to position the slides up & down / inside & out, arriving at sets of 8 (8 x 8 = 64). Supplementing the 64 images to fill the 80 slots of a Kodak Carousel projector slide tray to play a continuous loop, I created 16 additional slides: 8 images of the number 8 + 8 more of this figure 8 on its side to represent an infinity symbol.
Exhibition: The Brief, Largely Subterranean History of Reese Palley Gallery, San Francisco, 1969–1972 Cushion Works SF, Feb - Apr 2020 Screenings: 817 Kansas Street Studio SF, 1970-71 Reese Palley Gallery SF, 1971