The Green Ray (Tacita Dean)
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Title
The Green Ray (Tacita Dean)
Is Part Of
Physics
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Fine Art
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Description
"This is really interesting, because I filmed it on this beach in Madagascar, and there was this couple who were hanging around. They didn’t see the green ray, and they’d videotaped the sunset to document it. Then they replayed their video to me for proof that it wasn’t there. But I was absolutely convinced that I had seen it, so it had to be on my film, which was optical and analog. When I got the film back, it was very, very faint, and I had to really push it to get more color in the film, to bring out the green ray. But it’s definitely there. It’s not a fiction. Some people think the green ray is an illusion, but it’s not" (Dean in Eugenides 2006).
Creator
Tacita Dean
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Date Created
2001
Source
Eugenides, J. 2006. Tacita Dean. Bomb. 95. [Online]. Available: https://bombmagazine.org/articles/tacita-dean/. (03/09/2021).
Resonances
Madagascar
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ephemeral
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fiction
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invisible
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document
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photograph
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Tacita Dean
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illusion
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reality
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medicine chest
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Jeffrey Eugenides
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optical
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Type
Artwork
