Using light?
It came to me in a blinding flash (excuse the pun - actually it was something that Sue said) that I should be looking not at my working process but at using light in my work.This is something I have been fascinated by for some time, and feel drawn to. A problem with researching the historical context may be that light has only been used in art since the middle of the last century. How far back can I trace the use of light?
To answer my own question, at least in part, I can probably go back thousands of years - stained glass windows use light to cast beautiful colour bands over gloomy interiors, and who knows, I may find that the ancient world used light in some way to decorate or illustrate their world. Does anyone have other suggestions?
Last week I saw a work by David Bachelor (Candelabra 3) at the Bloomberg Space and a comment from that exhibition really says it all for me, "Once immersed in the light and hue generated by his works, the viewer can, in Bachelor's view, become 'transported'."
Details of the exhibition can be found at http://about.bloomberg.com/about/ourco/space/index.html
posted by Lynda Cornwell @ 11:18 am
2 Comments:
Dear Lynda,
It is a big subjectarea. I'm thinking of Camera Lucida, or projectors.
For some reason I am also thinking about light that travels through glass, or crystal, to appear as the rainbow.
(light that travels through water is apparently slower than light that travels through air)
Also drawing with light:
http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/youth/dwl/index_e.jsp
agot
Thanks Agot - I'll look at the cybermuse gallery.
My next step is to project light through my etched glass - I may be disappointed though because I'm beginning to think that light emanating from a source is what I want, rather than light projecting away from the viewer.
I shall see!
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