Rubies and Rubbish: An Artist’s Notes on Lasers and Holography

In 1962, the Swedish-born author, who was 28 years old at the time, had the good fortune to meet Billy Kluver, who took him to the laser department at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey and introduced him to the magic power of laser light. The author immediately saw the chance to use this revolutionary and precise tool for his poetical and philosophical investigations of life.