CURATORIAL STATEMENT 

 The idea behind my work was to create an artistic piece by using technical forms of composition. For my project, I decided to use the technique of slit scanning, a cinematographic process that involves cutting a slit out of a moveable slide, which is then inserted between the camera and the scene to be photographed. This technique was most notably used in (and originally adapted for) Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) during the star gate sequence in which the main character Dr. David Bowman gets pulled into a time warp which takes him through his life and death. I wanted to use slit scanning as my most prominent technique in the process of creating my composition because I feel like it is one of the cooler, lesser-known techniques used before the digitalization of special effects. I decided to replicate the intense bursts of color and pattern seen in that scene, but while applying them to a more geometric, perspective-heavy form.