Generously donated by Ioana Pioaru and David Brotherton-Ratcliffe , May 2022.
The making of VR holograms - a note from the artist: I like to call them Holographic sculptural drawings.
I start the process by making sketches (with pencil or ink on paper) of the subject, from different angles, to familiarise myself with the proportions and volume. Then I photograph these sketches and bring them into a virtual reality art-making app called Tilt Brush, and use them as reference images. The app allows you to draw in three dimensions (rather than on a flat surface) - ‘virtual ink’ flows out of the hand-held controller and remains stuck in mid-air. So every stroke that makes up the drawing has to be carefully drawn by hand.
When I’m happy with how the VR sculptural drawing looks, I export the project from VR and give it to Geola Digital UAB, Lithuania holography company. They extract from it (render) the image data for the digital holographic printer. Then they use this data to print the single parallax hologram on glass coated with a photoresist material.
Ioana Pioaru, March 2022
Installation views of Ioana Pioaru's recent exhibition at Gallery 286
Details of Ioana Pioaru's Maximalism group solo exhibition at Gallery 286
