camera obscura

I’ve recently started playing around with my photographs, placing them in pairs. Thinking about images in this split screen/reflective way reminds of an interest I’ve had for sometime now- the camera obscura. I’ve been contemplating how to incorporate a large scale one into an installation… I remember hearing about a very cool project where someone converted an 18 wheeler truck into a giant camera and drove around the south, taking pictures in little towns...

I'm thinking of a version that would create multiple spaces- the camera itself would be a central enclosed room surrounded by exterior rooms that are shiny and bright- enamel? glass?- and have variations of the same image repeated subtly beneath the surface on the walls. The projection is on the floor of the central dark room, but murky, so that it’s hard to see when you’re in the brightness of the outside rooms…. Ideally I'd love to do this in an abandoned space, so that its like you're looking at an xray or history of the building.