SLIT SCANS
23 MAY – 25 JUNE 2008 TENDERPIXEL GALLERY 10 Cecil Court, London WC2N 4HE

Tenderpixel Gallery presents a five week exhibition of new slit scans by Hugh Pryor and Jeremy Wood. Their work provides a fascinating view of reality by representing slithers of time spread along panoramic images. They explore the unusual transformations of familiar objects as they are mapped along the fleeting dimension of time.

Amongst a variety of subjects are views from airplanes as they taxi towards the runway and accelerate for takeoff. We see traveling along the ground and through the sky in a single image. As the ground recedes the perspective shifts like a twisting ribbon as it climbs through and above the clouds.

We see time captured with flocks of birds tracing their paths across the sky like a scratched etching; of water as it splashes, ripples and gyrates; and views from the treetops as they are blown in the wind.

The images are created from video footage using the slit scan principle. It is similar to how a scanner or photocopier records with slices of light. Slit scans are used at the finishing lines of races to help determine the winners, and on space probes to map the surfaces of rotating planets.

Hugh Pryor and Jeremy Wood have worked together making GPS drawings and this is a continued exploration of mapping with images. They drew 'The World's Biggest IF' and have been modeling and mapping GPS data since 2001. (www.gpsdrawing.com)