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Rodney Graham:
Millennial Project for an Urban Plaza, 1986
1. The installation is to comprise a tree planted as a sapling in a public plaza, and a camera obscura theater on a tower, built of steel, to be erected opposite the tree.
2. The height of the built structure as well as the distance from the tree are to be determined by the estimated size of the tree at maturity. Thus the vertical distance from the foot of the tower to the center of the theater's optical apparatus will be half that of the mature tree from the base of its trunk to the tip of its crown of foliage; while the distance from the theater to the tree will be determined by the appropriate number (2-3) of such tree-lengths. In this way at a calculable point in future time the inverted and reversed image of the tree, visible on the theater's screen, will have attained the desired proportion within the frame in which it will then be centered.
3. The theater's optical apparatus will consist of a cluster of hollow cones within a larger encapsulating cone whose truncated vertex defines a compound pinhole and a dish-shaped screen of beaded glass.
4. The image produced by the apparatus will thus be built up of small circular image-fragments, each corresponding to a single cone in the cone-cluster-whose optical principle is that of a numerously faceted compound eye.
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