Jinhong Cai

Step 10 is a video, sound installation that aims to communicate a feeling of dissonance through repetition and distortion of nature images. The video, the acetate print, the laser-engraved PET-G sheets - plastic , and the curtains are all made from the same source images. The artist manipulated them through different materials, magnified, and shrunk them based on the medium and placement.

A single source of projection has created three different variations of the same image within this room. All three projected images - the big one on the two walls between the prints, the medium one on the opposite wall and the smallest one on the acrylic sheet mid-air are all from the same source of projection. The variations are made up of projections through laser-engraved plastic sheets, that are distorted with heat, and poured with silver nitrate in selected parts to create a reflective surface. All the plastic sheets are intentionally left visible because displaying the apparatus is equally important as the resulted spatial collage to me. I would like the viewers to see both the final image and how the original projection is distorted to help viewers understand the process and the end product. These plastic pieces refract light and create new moments in the installation that are interactive with the viewers to help bringing the viewers closer to the piece