A Box With Light In It.

Over the past couple of weeks I have been toying with some experiments trying to figure out what I can create for a show in Acock Gallery.  It is a pretty tight space to 15 individuals so I am trying to downsize a little.  There are three ideas floating through my mind. The first is a doing something similar to my first two installations of the semester involving "Paper Clips" and "Shopping Carts".  This exploration would involve multiple shadows interacting with each other on a wall around a corner or some sort of interesting part of the room.

The second experiment involves a slowly pulsing spot light and a shadow that is suspended off the wall.  This object shadow is also painted the same as the wall.  My theory is that the light will pull the object from the wall as it pulses on and off.

The third experiment is an adventure with LEDs that will utilize the fiber optic quality of borosilicate.  So far I have constructed a box that holds glass rods.

Take the sketch with a grain of salt.  I don't imagine that it will be presented in this way.

There are a few interesting discoveries I made about glass rods and light.  Sandblasting a glass rod disrupts fiber optic quality. Fingerprints add to the luminous quality of the rod and do not detract from the fiber optic effect.  I have a few thoughts about how the light should exist in the work.  Mike Compton and I discussed how the light could encode information.  Binary code can be represented as light in pulses and in a sense can represent an image of something else in code form.  I would like to play with this translation of a objects to another form.