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SFU Gallery celebrates Jerry Pethick’s ventures into photoarrays
The arrays involve the creation of an integral, three-dimensional image by mounting rows of serial photos behind corresponding rows of Fresnel lenses (plastic lenses with concentric grooves on their surfaces). Because of their low resolution and dreamily “defocused” quality, Pethick wrote in a 1999 artist’s statement, these images lend themselves to metaphors of memory and imagined space. They are a low-tech exploration of the high-concept realm of optics—of the physical laws that govern the way we visually perceive the world. ...
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