Slice of the universe

This is an installation version of a small piece presented at the solo exhibition "Dear Monkey" (Mitsubishi Jisho Artium, Fukuoka, 2013), in which photographs of the galaxy are continuously flipped using a page curl effect. The image's basic structure is the same: a still image of the galaxy is slowly flipped through a page-turning effect, but the galaxy that always appears is the exact same image. The image is projected onto a black paper roll mounted on the wall, introducing a relationship between the page-turning in the image and the actual paper. It uses the effect of animation, created during the era of "skeuomorphism," a design technique that brought the texture of actual media into the interface space, which reached its zenith after the appearance of the iPhone, to create a realistic paper-flipping effect even within the screen. It combines this frivolous idea with an image of outer space that evokes "infinity" to create an eternal image that does not change its thickness at all, even though it continues to flip.