These are just thoughts I’m throwing out, in case some of my mind mud sticks to the wall: I was poking around the web for info on Easter Island, and I found a reference to a “so-called” “Cave of the Men Eatresses.” This is apparently a mangled translation that a bunch of sites have copied from Wikipedia.
But it got me thinking about that good old Plato and the cave of shadows. The idea of using shadows on the wall is interesting to me, because it allows us to use the wall as both solid surface and as a window. That dual nature has been bothering me since the beginning, and I think we’re getting somewhere with the acknowledgment of the space as such - how can we do that with the window-wall?
Have you seen the credits in the movie 300? It is done with silhouettes with a lot of camera movement. It is worth a look.
I hadn’t seen that - it’s interesting. The figures are much more 3D than I was expecting, mainly because they’re moving: 2D + time = 3D.