A 3d scan of the space inside the Apple Store Regents Street is the starting point for new work by Naomi Salaman

These three drawings in the window are copied from a 3d scan I made in the Apple Store, Regents Street London, some months ago. A colour print from this scan was in the previous exhibition in the windows, (see below), which I have used again to offer a view into the Apple Store through the Sweetshop Window Gallery.

A lot of my work over the last few years has been about copying photographic images. A pencil drawing of a projected photograph offers quite a good likeness of a photograph partly because all the photograph presents is a trace of where light has hit the film or the solenoid.

This new work is a bridge for me from thinking about the photographic image and its reproduction, to thinking about the digital scan. It’s a confusing drawing, nothing like as simple as a still photographic or digital image. There are plenty of reasons for this, but these drawings are a result of me trying to just copy a digital scan in monochrome pencil. The visual confusion that has resulted, and my not really being able to grasp what the digital is, are aligned. Ive stopped here. I would like to add colour, in the way that the 3d render of this image uses colour – it is so spatial and so accurate and it pulls me in. But for now the drawing I have made is monotone, quite flat and confused.