Simon van Til Contact Text CV	Index From and To / Elongated View. Light over Horizon (sunset to nautical twilight). Moonlit Disk. The Painter's Eye. Infinity Measured. Continuum. As Opposed To. Single View. Historical Record. Untitled. First Spectrum. edition Spectrum. Gravity Matters. Exhibition Views & Exhibition Catalogues		For light emanated by the sun it takes an accurate duration of 8 minutes and 19 seconds to reach the Earth. Travelling at the constant and finite speed of light, an approximate 300.000 km/s, light crosses a distance of 150.000.000 km, before arriving at this planet. The work From and To / Elongated View is photographed with an exposure time corresponding to the time it takes for light to travel from the sun to the Earth, or from the lightsource to the camera. Looking out over an expansive sea, the camera is employed not only as a means to take an image, but as a device to measure both duration and distance.
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© Simon van Til		From and To / Elongated View. 2011 framed gelatin silver print, mounted with museum board. Image size 22x28 cm. Frame size 100x150 cm.