Throughout my research I have enjoyed playing with the questions about what is a choice and what is chance? What is constructed and not constructed?
If the theatre is about constructing scenarios and spaces that seem real, then I would say my work is about making what is real/natural look constructed.
For example; using the passage of time, and natural light, to alter the materiality of paper. I was inspired by a Portland architecture project OrigamiPDX who have a beautiful video of light moving over some paper shapes. There's however is artificial so I wanted to test it with natural light and real-time. After all, their video is a simulation of what they expect to happen naturally.
I was drawn to this experiment because of the phrase "architecture is rendering material with light"
and since a significant part of my practice is in light and material research I have chosen to follow what excites me and place materials in this beautiful space to see how they interact with the light.
“Origami PDX.” Origami PDX, www.origamipdx.com/.
Classmates who have seen my progress so far have sent me a few artists to follow. I am curious as to why, is it the aesthetic that is simialr, to subject matter, the need to pull a story out of the orinary everyday? Regardless I think it is interesting the analyse why these artists have suddenly been shared with me,
Half-past four in the afternoon, her friends had gone home, and the Huis was preparing to close. After a brief conversation downstairs, C returned to Studio 1 to gather her things.
"maybe just one more photo of the curtain."
Ridiculous, but she couldn't help herself it was astonishing to sit and stare at.
Snapping the photo, her head quickly tilted away from the scope of the camera, neck bending to see over the waving curtain. The light on the floor had begun to creep up the wall. Half-past four in the afternoon, she noted.
With bags in hand she took one more photo. Only a few minutes had passed and the light had climbed further up the wall.
evanescence (the orchestration of light to mutate through time)
procession (the choreography of light for the moving eye)
veils of glass (the refraction of light in a diaphanous film)
atomization (the sifting of light through a porous screen)
canalization (the channeling of light through a hollow mass)
atmospheric silence (the suffusion of light with a unified mood)
luminescence (the materialization of light in physical matter)
The concept of "The Architecture of Natural Light has been floating around my mind since making models in my home, using natural light as walls, or negative space. However, I never actually searched for the phrase until now. Lo and behold there's a whole book. Reading the summary I came across some interesting ways of classifying light.
"The 256-page book is organized into seven different sections, each one focusing on a specific quality of natural light: evanescence (the orchestration of light to mutate through time); procession (the choreography of light for the moving eye); veils of glass (the refraction of light in a diaphanous film); atomization (the sifting of light through a porous screen); canalization (the channeling of light through a hollow mass); atmospheric silence (the suffusion of light with a unified mood); and luminescence (the materialization of light in physical matter)."
https://www.archlighting.com/news/briefs/the-architecture-of-natural-light_o
