Light again, again and again.
London, 2023/2024
Kinetic Sculpture · Projection Mapping · Light Narratives ·
MAIN CONCEPT
Light is integral to our vision and perception, continually illuminating our world and animating our surroundings. This abstract energy travels through time and space, creating narratives as it appears and disappears, again and again.
This project celebrates the omnipresence of light by capturing and elongating its fleeting phenomenon and making it tangible. By transposing light from one space to another, the project reanimates the narratives that light holds, allowing us to relive and experience the transient beauty of light in new and meaningful ways.
In response to this a series of installations were designed, aiming to re-experience and perceive moments of light once existed.
Outcome 1: “An archival constellation of light”
Outcome 2: “A pareidolic environment”
Outcome 3: “The Overground carriage to New Cross Gate”
ACHIEVEMENTS
Project with First Class Honours.
Exhibited at the Goldsmiths BA Design Degree Show A SYNONYM OF BREAK.
With this first installation holding a constellation of archived lights, I aim to explore the revival of light perceptions by multiple individuals. Each capture of light, whether accidental or intentional, narrates its own story, reshaping our vision of reality.
This kinetic sculpture allows the digital images projected onto the rotating discs to travel around the ceiling, akin to a nostalgic, blurry memory.
As night descends, the skyscrapers of Canary Wharf come alive and envelop us in a radiant embrace with their glowing enlightened windows, creating a mesmerising pareidolic image: a starry night sky. As the reflections of glass and steel form a dynamic interplay of luminescence, blurring the lines between ground and sky, walking through the streets one can feel immersed in this luminous artwork, almost as if entering a new abstract dimension of reality.
This up to scale image of Canary Wharf’s environment aims for one to experience this parallel dimension, the understanding of the context and the new narrative perceived from it.
Natural light creates a dynamic succession of events. From dusk to dawn, the incidence of the sun transforms our perception of what we see. This dynamism is even more evident when we ourselves are in movement. During my travels to university every morning, the motion of light captured my interest. I kept studying how the sun travelled inside the overground carriage, how as it travelled north to south and zig zagged west to east, these shadows contracted and elongated, animating its interior.
The installation reproduces this travel experience. As the rotating motion illuminates the interior of the small-scale space, the rhythmic paths of light elongate this exact exposure in time. Transforming this passing experience as an infinite loop.