We just threw images onto the walls".
He throws images of himself at other people that they have to eat — but that mask in his eyes slowly deteriorates until it collapses, like old America.
This also serves as the stand for a projector that throws images of the artist's hands manipulating petal shapes drawn on sheets of acetate on the wall.
Set is about the size of a pie pan, and it is built in a radio cabinet and operate the dials which throw images on the lens.
For shadow puppetry, he hit on the idea of using an overhead projector, a device, familiar to anyone over 40, that employs acetate transparencies and a light source to throw images onto a screen.
Eliasson has orchestrated a complex system of mirrors, scrims and light that reinvent the performance space, generating multiple reflections of the dancers, throwing images of the audience back on themselves.
The desk acted like the projector at a center of a planetarium, throwing images onto swaying sheets of paper, onto the viewers in the room, and across the walls: a bird landing, a cheetah running, a landscape rushing past train windows.
In 1952, the traveler and radio host Lowell Thomas, together with Mike Todd and Louis B. Mayer, produced a feature-length extravaganza called "This Is Cinerama," which threw images from three simultaneously operating projectors onto a huge, curved screen while sound seemed to emanate from all directions at once.
Rather than shrinking this paradox, photography has served to magnify it, and from its most primitive days the medium has thrown up images that stir us with an intensity that outweighs their value as social documents; we can be rattled into brief intimacy with persons of whose acquaintance we will never have the pleasure.
A pose will be thrown, an image projected, a performance made.
