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Katinka Matson, Digital Scanner Artist

The water-lily pictured above isn’t a photograph.  It’s not a painting, either.  It’s a scan.

Like the many people who xeroxed their body parts for fun, or used a copy machine for art, Matson discovered that the scanning eye stick was far better at depth that was assumed. More importantly as color scanning became cheap, and then became super hi-res, the final image of a quick scan had all the detail of a painting. She began composing cut flowers on a scanner bed and capturing the color images. So the images you see here were not photographed but scanned with an ordinary office scanner. The grace of the images is self-evident.

April 6, 2007 - Posted by | Oddities, Science and Technology

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