Prison Camp Diorama Made for the Simon Weisenthal Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles this diaorama was a false perspective model about 5 metres long but less than 1 metre deep. The challenge was to make a convincing setting with tremendous foreshortening which worked with a very large viewing front (along the whole length). Ordinarily a diorama works best from a fixed and limited view point so this model took considerable planning to achieve. The barbed wire was all hand made with each 'barb' being tied on individually. This of course needed to diminish in size as it receded into the back of the diorama. The other challenge was to create a slow sweeping search light which, as it needed to traverse the depth of the diorama rather than the width was made, via a fibre optic and lens mechanism, so that the pool of light cast onto the hut and the ground got larger as it approached the front of the diorama and smaller towards the rear. link: Simon Weisenthal Museum of Tolerance

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