Dr. Joseph Scheer (German/American, B. 1958)
"Citheronia Splendens"
Digital print on heavy watercolor paper.
Pencil signed, dated (2005), titled and numbered (AP) lower margin.

Provenance: comes from the collection of Mr William Tippit, friend of Dr Scheer and owned the property that Dr Scheer would visit in Florida and where some of the images were taken for this series.

Image Size: 30 x 40 in.
Sheet Size: 34 x 46.5 in.
Unframed.

Joseph Scheer is a Professor of Print Media, and Co-Director/Founder of the Institute for Electronic Arts at the School of Art and Design, Alfred University. His current works, which span print media, video and web based projects, use technology to re-examine nature through interpretive collecting and visual recording. His most recent work has been exhibited at The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York and the National Museum of China, Beijing. The National Museum of Sweden, Stockholm and The Field Museum, Chicago, IL, He has published two books about his work; Night Visions, the Secret Designs of Moths, published by Prestel and Night Flyers, published by Nexus Press.

To make his astounding prints, artist Joseph Scheer captures incredibly detailed images of moths with a scanner originally designed for film and transparencies. The tiny micro moths are as small as .25 inch and the giant Silkmoths have wings spans up to 5 in. Using a special scanner that has a programmable focus for different depths of field, he scans each specimen between 7 and 40 times using different points of focus. Then he painstakingly reassembles them choosing only parts from the files that are in focus. The scanner records so much information?67 million data points per square inch?that a single specimen may take a full day to scan. The data files generated are huge: some of his many layered images are up to 10 Gigabytes before processing. With resolution that high, scans can be enlarged 2,700 percent and still be perfectly clear.

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