On the path of light and sight
On the 5th of December in 2013 I went to visit the Blythe House in west London. The Blythe House keeps the object archive of the Science Museum where the 5th Rife Microscope made by Royal Rife in 1938 is conserved. This Instrument, a compound microscope, was given to the London Science Museum in 1990 by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, which had received it from the formal owner, Dr. B.W. Gonin, who had purchased it from form Rife in the 1940s. The file that accompanied the object in the archive included a drawing Rife made to depict the optical system of the microscope. I used this drawing in the two animations I made after my visit to the Museum -- a visit during which I spent approximately 35 hours studying and scanning the forms of individual components of the microscope. During this intensive period of "investigating" the object through a three-dimensional digital scanner, I felt compelled to take video through several of the microscope's lenses. The encounter between my camera and the microscope produced several video sequences in which the microscope appears to "investigate" and "scan" the room around it.