Abstract
Paula Dawson's holographic artwork entices the viewer and confounds critics with a complex web of meanings. Her work demonstrates an absorption with technical experimentation and plays with notions of art and the role of the artist. She explores aspects of the unique characteristics of holography as well as broader concepts related to her own experiences and ways of seeing. Her sense of humour and energy are apparent in everything she creates. Dawson exhibited her first holograms in 1974 [1]. One of these, Toy Boat, comprised technical descriptions of a hologram juxtaposed with a holographic plate that seemed to merely present stains from poor developing. Although a laser was directed at the plate, its beam was not diffused and so no image was visible. The work played on a characteristic approach of hologram viewers that fascinated Dawson,
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