Ansen Seale : SlitScan Photography

Ansen Seale has invented a time machine; a camera that captures an abstracted form of the hidden realities our minds must bend in order to process... think of time as a visual plane. This is slitscan photography, invented by Ansen Seale and reflected in his time machine: the Slitscan Camera.


"(It is)... unfamiliar to our traditional concept of the depiction of time and space in art. In other words, this camera is recording a reality that exists, but one we cannot see without it.”  - Ansen Seale


Are there hidden realities in existence? What Seale has done is reinterpret the normal momental interpretations consistently expressed in photography, and created a cubist median between a still image and that of cinema, flattening the 4th Dimension... time is tangible, appearing all at once.



From the Series, Temporal Form:

Temporal Form no. 10

Frieze

Further Reading: Roman Frieze

Traditionally we look at a picture with vertical dimension, horizontal dimension, depth, and the passage of Time which is traditionally a trademark of a blurred image, but to photograph this series, Seal's Slitscan Camera swaps the dimensions of the Horizontal Plane and Time... obscuring dimensional perception.

Heisenberg Figure

Further Reading: Werner Heisenberg

Ideal Form

Strive

"I tease out this unusual reality lurking just beneath the surface of our everyday visual experience in the same way the cubist painters created dynamic tension by exploiting the interplay between what the viewer expects and what she gets." 

Temporal Form no. 11

Temporal Form no. 12

"The model in the studio must move in order to be captured." 

Temporal Form no. 13

Temporal Form no. 18

Temporal Form no. 19

Temporal Form no. 21

Temporal Form no. 22

Temporal Form no. 23

Temporal Form no. 25

"This is the way my camera sees the world." 

Temporal Form no. 8

Temporal Form no. 24

Uncertainty

Further Reading: Uncertainty Principle

Quotes by Ansen Seale


Resources:
Article on Ansen Seale in Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas, 2006 by Diana Lyn Roberts
Ansen Seale Website: http://ansenseale.com/series.cfm