The artwork focuses our attention on the connection between the rhythms of biological time and celestial time.
EMBODIED LIGHT
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND
2023
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Description
‘Embodied Light’ invites visitors to engage thoughtfully and physically with three suspended optical devices meant to heighten an individual’s awareness of the informational content of natural light. This thesis is grounded in a belief that it is the presence of light illuminating the millions of surfaces and textures of a surrounding environment that triggers and informs our perceptual and physiological response. Hence it is not only the moments of dawn or evening twilight, nor the mid-day brightness of daylight, nor the qualities of light that exists within darkness that informs us, light is also a part of our memory and dreams, as light resides within us. The three lenses redirect and project varied qualities of environmental light onto a diffuse glass surface, the result an overlay of crisp images and diffused light, movement, and shadow. The artwork has eastern solar exposure, and observations throughout the day present unique and individually rich experiences of light.
In the morning the direct sunlight and shadows from outside are animated and overlaid with the bright landscape beyond, while the indirect raking light of sunset from the West illuminates this same landscape, presenting an array of ambient colors reaching to the horizon. The path of the sun and moon are captured in the projected image when in view at certain times of the day and night each month, bringing attention to the connection between the rhythms of biological time and celestial time. The layers of ‘Embodied Light’ heighten our attention to the varied aspects of light/time which we as individuals experience, absorb, respond to and cherish.
Engineer / Fabricator: TriPyramid Structures
Optics Consultant: Corning Glass R+D