Description

One of the first things I saw when visiting the Miners’ Library was a bespoke cabinet of ‘slides’/colour transparencies, housing the art history collection. It occurred to me that the technology underpinning the study of art i.e. how you accessed the images, developed alongside the technology of mining techniques. Initially reproductions of paintings would be in expensive art books, often in black and white with occasional colour plates. The development of colour film positives gave access to highly detailed projected images that could be shared by a group.

I liked the idea of that experience being shared by a group moving from one darkness to another, accessing artifacts from another century.

I chose the Sistine Chapel image as it signifies connection and also mirrors the hands of the teacher and the transference of knowledge.