The 'Clinometer Heautoscope' and 'Tesseract Heautoscope' are mirror-surfaced pinhole cameras. I developed them as experimental conceptual apparatus for tentatively examining reflexivity in instruments. In survey images from a condemned urban woodland the mirrored surface of the Clinometer can clearly be seen to record its own recording.
The Tesseract Heautoscope derives its form from the Hypercube conceived by Charles Hinton to allude to a four dimensional cube. The assumption of time as the forth dimension is appropriate for a pinhole camera whose extruded exposures refute the petrifying veracity of the photographic instant.
The Tesseract Heautoscope's arrangement of six perpendicular camera cubes conceals a void at its core. Revealingly, in reflecting itself on itself it creates the hallucination of a suspended cube superimposed on the central void. These experiments propose that a self-aware array of instruments can simultaneously record the site and their own recording.
