Eisner's Color-copier Images

Biologist/naturalist, emeritus professor from Cornell, Thomas Eisner's color-copied arrangements. He has some shell arrangements, also. I like the wildflowers. A scanner would also work.



Now commonly available, the copier, he writes in an e-mail message, “can serve for the inventive generation of imagery, for composition of novel pictorial arrangements, and in that capacity find use in the expression of fantasy.”




How did these images come to be? “I simply imagined how the component parts of a given arrangement might fit together,” Dr. Eisner writes, “and laid out the parts in accord with the vision. It was like playing with a Lego set. There were only two provisos. Parts had to be laid out upside down on the copier’s stage, because the copier ‘sees’ the stage from beneath, and the arrangements, once composed, had to be covered with a black velvet cloth to exclude ambient light from the picture.”