The artwork focuses our attention on the connection between the rhythms of biological and celestial time.

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Description

‘Embodied Light’ invites visitors to engage thoughtfully and physically with a suspended optical devices meant to heighten an individual’s awareness of the informational content of 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 lens redirects the projected video image of the sky onto a diffuse glass surface, revealing this light as "information" embodied within the device.

The path of the clouds and moon are captured in the projected image, 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, particularly noticeable in the simultaneous yet unique readings of the light information. The resolved image on the diffused glass also evokes how every rain drop falling to earth embodies through its optics and omnidirectional view of its environment.

Engineer / Fabricator: TriPyramid Structures
Optics Consultant: Corning Glass R+D