Environmental Lighting
Glass defines mediation of light through nearly all of the built environment. The molten glass 3D printer offers a chance to re-evaluate that role, not producing thin forms, but tectonic structures, capable of forming architectural scale components, while texturing light in new ways. Suspended Understanding is the challenge to think adaptively on the role of light and the role of the environment. Within our studio we created a space to freely explore those concepts and designed a tenuous vision of environment, reformable, transient, and responsive. At the center, one focal glass object, is given the freedom to express the lighting patterns internalized into its digital design.
The installation environment is made up of 30 circular canvases, realizing a digitally modeled parametric surface. The installation pixelates the emitted light which allow for a focused view of the caustic patterns.
Objects in Space
Acrobat is a gestural attempt to bring the body into the context of our lights. Spawning from a simple absurdist question: what if a person is the mounting hardware for the light, Acrobat explores the body as canvas and tool.
Caustics paint the subject and the surrounding walls. Floating in space, the light recalls memories of the ocean’s refractions on the sand below. This gesture cements the light, body, and surroundings as elements in one sculpture. Each element responds to the other in a hierarchy of luminosity.
This pieces is a collaboration with artist Ethan Townsend
