Sideroads in Stereoscope
Sideroads in Stereoscope combines imagery of Iceland and Sicily in side-by-side landscapes. This project is connected to the book of poetry “Sideroads” by the late Icelandic poet Jonas Thorbjarnarson and consists of tiny postage-stamp sized cyanotypes of the Icelandic and Sicilian landscape that bear uncanny resemblances to one another. Often shot through the windows of moving cars, these quickly framed images are presented side-by side as if they were two views of the same scene from slightly different perspectives, as would be done to create a stereoscope, a photographic effect that fools the eye into superimposing two scenes, resulting in the sensation of seeing an image in 3-D.
These images were shot in Iceland and Sicily between 2005 and 2013, and printed in cyanotype in 2016 to become frames for a stop-motion animation and become part of a folio of cyanotype prints with letterpress printed excerpts from Jonas Thorbjarnarson's "Sideroads", translated from Icelandic to Italian. Click on "Sideroads in Stereoscope (Animation)" to learn more about this ongoing project.