The Conformist was a unique sculpture for its time, create in the early 80 s in Toronto , It was labeled as surreal but in my opinion it could just as well have been called performance or Graffitti. I thought of it as experimental. Holography was in infantile paralysis, the Ontario college of art was still using a sand box table and the chances of making a succesful holigram depended on when the street car rolled by which shook the building. The elusion of dimension still remained on the wall, within a frame or on a roll of film, most often the imagry was weak and sensational. I was more interested in presenting the holigram as a sculpture within a sculpture by minipulating its frame and diguising it , It was not the all and everything I wanted to be more convinced of its independency and freedom in space. I used smoked glass plates before flexable film took over, making for example a cube made up of six different holigrams of the same subject .This gave the hologram the appearance of being inside the geometrical shape attached to the figurine. The holigraphic sculpture parts would only be viewed when exposed to light triggered by the motion sensors in the sculpture space . The changing and intereacton with the sculpture took it to perfection as it did performance . The audiance performs while the director observes, it keeps on going . I made the object to make the holigram, like the floating nude woman, she wasn't just any nude she started out as wax could have become a bronze but became a holigraphic component of the Conformist.
