The video projection is a composite of sixteen one hour videos that shows a gradually evolving drawing of the frontal view of the ruined entrance hall of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art.

Each video was shot by placing the video camera on a photograph of the view facing a mirror into which a drawing was hand-engraved over the next hour. The mirror was strongly illuminated from behind so that the etched lines appear as lines of light. At the end of the hour the mirror was smashed with a hammer.

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