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The EPscope explores themes of curiosity and memory through a visual dialogue with the inner life of the Edinburgh Printmakers workshop. A fantastic synthesis of periscope and kaleidoscope, the EPscope is an obsidian duct, seductively clad in black rubber and projecting an infinity of patterns that shift through mechanical intervention and the natural movement of people, objects and light. The result is an image but not a likeness of the analogue world above; ink and textile and paper overlaid with fragments of the past. There is an intimacy to the carefully restored Castle Mills building that is reflected in the work, asking questions of its past life and the lives of those who once knew it as a thriving industrial centre. One turn of the wheel brings to life a myriad of objects once created by the NBRC’s production facility (such as rubber boots, hot water bottles and car tyres) that refract and collide with warped images of the print studio above to create an infinity of patterns that are at once obtuse and accurate, like a memory.
Title
EPscope
Date
2019
Medium
steel, mirror, rubber, & ink
Accession number
618
Acquisition method
Commission
Work type
Sculpture