Last weekend Sidney Gordon and I travelled to Saturna Island to stay at the studio of Al Razutis with the aim of learning to make holograms. We came in a car full of chemistries, cameras, darkroom equipment, food and six 102L plastic tote bins. In Al's studio we put together a simple modular sand table comprised of the aforementioned plastic tote bins (acting as cells) filled twelve inches deep with washed sand. Al had most of the instruments required, they only needed to be hot glued to metal tubes.

 

The first night at 1am we went to Winter Cove to look for Aurora Borealis. It was a twenty minute walk through the woods to get to the point.  An army of frogs croaked the tune of this adventure. We weren't able to see the lights with our naked eyes. Although my camera seems to have captured something. This journey through the woods at night in search of strange perceptual phenomena set the tone for the remainder of our three day trip.