Robert P. Taylor's : Fountain: Reflections of 3 Dancing Maidens

The use within Fountain of
Concurrent exhibiting of the same image

The digitized drawings which are the heart of this site have been organized into a number of simultaneous exhibits. These virtually concurrent exhibits were suggested by a variety of ideas. Some are simple, some complex. Some are self contained, some overlap others. Some spring directly from the fact that the images are all of 3 maidens sculpted into a fountain, some have little or nothing to do with the content of the site. The brief comments here briefly elaborate on some of these ideas, for two reasons. The first reason is to assist those interested in better understanding one or more of these concepts and their applicaton to organizing a particular concurrent exhibit. The second is to make clear how considerably the resulting exhibits naturally overlap with each other, and why the site makes extensive use of the web's digital technology base. Altogether, here are eight primary exhibits designed to thematically display the drawings included in the site. In addition, there are five secondary exhibits, designed to illustrate some of the uses an artist can make of digitization in drawing and in exhibiting the process of drawing.

The largest exihibit, and the only comprehensive one, displays all the drawings in the site, in the order in which they were created. A "multi-maid" exhibit displays the few drawings made of more than a single maid, to illustrate the problems of such drawings in the context of this site. For each of the three individual maids in the sculpture, there are two exhibits: one in chronological order, and one in rotation order - like a series of views one might get in walking around the figure. Finally, there are five secondary exhibits each dealing with a different aspect of using digitization and the computer to revise, present, and explain the resulting images, and to illustrate the process of creating final images.

The net effect of appreciating the many overlapping exhibits these and other factors suggested, though, was to underscore the potential value of organizing the site around concurrent exhibits that could display the same drawing in many different installations, each with a different focus, each thus potenitally able to trigger different understandings of the same image.

Simultaneous concurrent exhibiting of digital images   Rationale for this site

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