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Clock Walk | Decorative Objects by Ansen Seale | Charles Schwab Corporate Office in Austin. Item made of synthetic
Clock Walk | Decorative Objects by Ansen Seale | Charles Schwab Corporate Office in Austin. Item made of synthetic

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Ansen Seale

Clock Walk - Decorative Objects

Featured In Charles Schwab Corporate Office, Austin, TX

$ On Inquiry

In this interactive companion piece to The People's Time, visitors are imaged as they walk on the stairs and interact with that piece. An ephemeral record of their movements is captured by a special slit scan camera and displayed on a large screen.

Curated by Art + Artisans

A single, vertical sliver of space is imaged over an extended period of time, yielding the surprising result that unmoving objects are blurred and moving bodies are rendered clearly. Instead of mirroring the world as we know it, this camera records a hidden reality. No digital manipulations are applied and what looks like “distortions” in the image all happen in-camera; pure photography that changes the rules of what a camera is. Like a microscope or telescope, the machine expands our ability to perceive more about the nature of reality.

This is an unusual reality lurking just beneath the surface of our everyday visual experience. The piece discards the horizontal dimension and substitutes for it the fourth dimension, time.

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Ansen Seale
Meet the Creator
Wescover creator since 2018
Time and Motion

Ansen Seale's time-based works of photographic and sculptural art have been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally and have been collected by corporate, institutional and private collectors. In 2009, he received the Bernard Lifshutz Award in the Visual Arts from the Artist Foundation of San Antonio and his work is in the permanent collection of the San Antonio Museum of Art, The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas, Austin and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Salta, Argentina.

Seale works with a special digital camera of his own invention. This camera has the ability to capture a vertical slice of the scene over and over in rapid succession, in effect, swapping the horizontal dimension of the photo for the dimension of time. Instead of mirroring the world as we know it, this camera records a hidden reality. The apparent “distortions” in the images all happen in-camera as the image is being recorded.