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You Activate This Space | Sculptures by Ansen Seale | University Hospital - University Health System in San Antonio. Item made of synthetic
You Activate This Space | Sculptures by Ansen Seale | University Hospital - University Health System in San Antonio. Item made of synthetic
You Activate This Space | Sculptures by Ansen Seale | University Hospital - University Health System in San Antonio. Item made of synthetic
You Activate This Space | Sculptures by Ansen Seale | University Hospital - University Health System in San Antonio. Item made of synthetic

Created and Sold by Ansen Seale

Ansen Seale

You Activate This Space - Sculptures

Featured In University Hospital - University Health System, San Antonio, TX

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My work has always been about Time. Originally a photographer, I have stretched my work more and more to include aspects of time, like movement and change.

In this piece, forty-two backlit panels react in response to the movement of the staff through the space. As people pass each panel, the work responds by changing color and then slowly fading back to the original color, in effect, leaving a trail behind the person walking.

Thus, the Viewer becomes the Creator, riding a self-generated wave of calming energy–lifting them on their way to and from work. Collaboration is also celebrated. As people approach from opposite directions, they create a third color as their trails meet and intermingle.

The physical form of the panels is also reminiscent of a musical instrument, giving rise to a changing harmony of quiet tones filling the space.

The title of the piece is meant to be a clear and unambiguous message, both in an immediate sense (the bridge space), and also to the hospital work experience as a whole. The staff makes the hospital come alive.

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Ansen Seale
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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.