Sauna Obscura

Artist Heidi Lunabba has mashed-up the best thing since sliced bread – a floating sauna. And that’s not all, its walls are punctured with two lensed holes on opposite sides, meaning that it also functions as a camera obscura.
About eight visitors at a time can comfortably experience the smooth heatwaves from wood-heated stove (given that nobody forgets to add wood to the fire!). As the raft floats around, its surroundings are projected inside, on the walls, on the steam and on the visitors bodies through pinholes. This is achived optically, without mediatechnological intervention.

…in a society, where webcams and cameraphones are commonplace, the emotions raised by Camera Obsucura are almost magical – we find fascination in real pictures, created without any machinery [. . .] The image is sympathetic, friendly intimate, not overseeing or preserving.

Sauna Obscura visited the waters of Wei