Simone Forti's Holographic ANGEL by Fran Minarik It comes on suddenly with the lighting of the candle. a tiny figure flickering above the flame. revolving. moving. I call it Angel because I had not wanted to show it and so my heart was aching because after all that had gone into the making of it the arm was wrong and the figure which was to ha ve been a coherent distillation from a study of vertebrate flight. a coherent speculation about wings and breath. was ;ust some little figure dancing yellow orange red blue violet and Peter who had arranged the making of the Multiplex hologram and had pulled hard against the tides of conflicts of schedules and had despite the flu pressured the process through all night before our flight back to New York was insisting now that I must show it now or else. And I knowing that I must show it now or else found myself thinking in the night of Isaac and the knife and the angel and I trusted to the angel. (Angel, Simone Forti) Hologram of Simone Forti used in A NGEL, illuminated by a candle. Photo by Peter Van Riper. lJSITTIFall, 1978 Theatre Design & Technology 17