1949 · Visible Memory · Werk 611 von 1.871

A small round display tube in a plain metal housing mounted on a rack beside a larger storage tube, its face showing the same grid of bright dots and dashes as the storage tube, a thin grease-pencil mark on the glass beside one position in the grid, the two tube faces side by side with the phosphor pattern reflected faintly in the grey metal of the rack, seen close so the small tube face and the pencil mark fill the frame, the phosphor glow and a single soft light from behind, the rack fading into pure black beyond.
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