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Light’s formal and material possibilities are endless. Artist James Turrell suggests using light as an artistic medium, as a “material,” enabling it to be felt as well as perceived. Like Turrell, I try to create experiences that allow people to feel and see light. In my light sculptures and installations, I use light as a material to define and delineate space and allow it to be physically felt. I often employ sensors to detect a participant’s presence and enable them to control the light to create different patterns and behaviors. In other projects, I let light – and only light – elicit a more passive interaction: participants are engaged even if they are only looking at or playing with the light. Light has always been fascinating to me. I know now that part of that fascination is derived from intuitively recognizing the connection, and tension, between what I see and what I feel. If I were to define why I work with light, it is because I want others to experience a similar sense of fascination with light through the works I create. |