A series of two frame animations of rope swings found across Salford’s parks and greens spaces.
commissioned as part of ‘You Belong Here’ at Salford Museum and art gallery. link
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The video triptych Rope swing offers a more nostalgic and playful memory of public space. The gently animated digital video references the stereoscope – a Victorian analogue device which allowed the viewer to observe a pair of images at once, creating an illusion
of a single 3D image, known as a stereograph. Jack was inspired by a stereoscopic image c.1860 that he found in Salford Museum and Art Gallery’s collection. It shows the Markendale family who lived at Ordsall Hall in Salford in the 19th century. Creating a digital homage to the stereograph, Jack draws a connecting path to the Victorian origins of many of our local parks and museums.