Narcissikon (1973)
This was my first Rutt-Etra piece. I replicated Louise’s image four times, in groups of two.
The initial picture is Louise sitting against a black background. She’s got an output monitor she can watch, and I put it in a circle wipe, feed it into the Rutt-Etra synthesizer, get a white line wipe, put Louise’s face into that, take it out of the Rutt-Etra, and outline it in the synthesizer, and Louise is on the intercom, and she’s talking to me and I’m talking to her, and we actually ran through it twice.
This is a real museum piece, very sensual. They wouldn’t play it on Channel Five because it was too sensual. They won’t play it on WNET unless we put music in the background, because everyone will think their set is broken.
Heartbeat (1973)
Abstractions on a Bedsheet (1973)
Lady of the Lake (1974)
I set up the technological thing, and Louise executed it. What it is, she’s sitting in a pool of light, and whenever she moves, it increases the amount of light on her. It appears to distort what is actually the whole TV screen—that’s the lower part. Then there are ripples of reflection off her silk blouse.
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