Friday 10 April 2009

Holo Nightmares

The current discussion on the problems with archival stability in Fine Art Holography has clearly got me worried. Last night I had a classic anxiety dream that involved falling from a high building, no clothes, no money, in a foreign city and, worst of all...all my holograms were destroyed by a collapsing building! Jason Sapan said I should count myself lucky that so few of my holograms have degraded over time and, I must say, I do, hearing some of the horror stories out there. I have had occasion to break a hologram but fortunately was able to retrieve the master from the artist and have it reproduced, but I realise that most of the time that isn't going to be possible. It would appear that glass plates are more stable than film but evidently more research in this area is required. In the meantime I will probably continue tossing and turning in my sleep. Thanks, guys!