Black Out

Untitled (You are Wow)

Plinth 420mm x 1350mm. Overall height 1780mm. ARTIST STATEMENT The brief I set myself when I embarked on my Master’s Degree was, ‘to investigate duration to produce work which creates a dialogue with viewers, during which their awareness of both space and time are intensified’. My aims and objectives were, and continue to be to: - Extend the duration of an experience of a work using shifts in light; - Investigate how materials can be used to create conditions for a contemplative experience in space; The body of work I am currently undertaking continues this program using materials that reflect, block out or diffuse light, coupled with colour changing light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that emit light from different positions to produce a wide range of effects. At the same time I can’t help but be influenced by popular culture – the cult of the size 0, women and self esteem, the normalizing of cosmetic surgery as one ages….this work combines these two programs. No matter which way you look at this work – front or back – you are WOW to infinity! The light changes and merges subtly, sometimes creating an effect of movement. The viewer may need to look twice to realise changes are occurring.