'Tao Tie' I
Aluminium foil and diffraction foil on plywood
1982 : 150 cms tall
Based on the Chinese ceramic form of opposing dragon faces, the surfaces are made out of aluminium foil manually typed with "1's" and "0's" in a cryptic binary code. Arranged diagonally across each of the 1400 individual tiles is a narrow strip of diffraction foil casting constellations of coloured spangles across the surface. An early attempt at a hologrammatic representation of a computer chip.
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