Double Flame, 2001
Lenticular Print

“Double Flame” is a 3D lenticular print that composes Buddha and a Detroit Muscle Car - 1970 Dodge Charger. You may have seen rulers or key chains that seems to flash two images “simultaneously”. It was the perfect metaphor for ”double flame”.

Lenticular images are digital files that have been specially prepared and then printed onto a lens material. This material is a special plastic made up of lenticules, referring to the eye's lens and they’re shaped like lentils, therefore the  name lenticular printing. The image, viewed through the lenticules, appears to move as it is turned creating dramatic flickering between 2 images or animation.

Double Flame Exhibition
Cranbrook Art Academy Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI

“Double Flame” by Octavio Paz, muses “The double face of eroticism - fascination with both life and death...” My interpretation of double flame is the duality of life and afterlife; and those precious moments that they might overlap.