Light Show

    On Thursday Ariel and I went to the art gallery. There is an exhibit there right now callec the Light Show. It is all art that is made out of light. I really really liked the exhibit. I pulled some photos off the website for my blpng but they aren't as cool as the actual exhibit because cameras don't work like eyes so lots of the illusions created bythe light are totally missed. For instance one of my favorite pieces was three monochrmatic rooms. There was one with vree light, one with red light and one with blue light. The longer you stood in one color the more your eyes adjusted to that color. They had cubs hanging from the celining between the rooms so that youcould see one skde had become white and the color in the adjoining room had changed. For instance if you were in the blue room the light from the green room looked very yellow and if you were in the red room the green looked very much like the Emerald City from Wizard of Oz. Our first go through the monochromatic rooms we missed the point but walking around again we figured it out.

This is a bunch of light boxes that had signs from fast food places and shops at one point in time but the fronts were taken off and they were filled with colorful lights. I think it looks better from the other side were you can see all the lights. You can't see it in this photo but all of the cords and stuff are exposed on the back. The description in the museum reminded me of the book 1984 because it was a very big brother inspired piece of art. 

This is one of my favorite pieces. Each strand had loads of LED's on it. The artist had created a custom computer program to make them go off in random non-repeating patterns. Ariel and I sat and watched this one for a long time. A lot of the piece is lost in a still shot. You really need a video to get the feeling for it. The lights are constantly moving. I love that the patterns don't repeat because it means every time you see the piece is is essentially a different piece of art. 

This is the monochromatic rooms I mentioned above. It is hard to get the feeling from a photo but it shows how the rooms are laid out. This is a hall way on one side of them. You are suppose to stand under a row of lights and not in the hallway to let your eyes adjust but once they have looking into the hallway is super cool. 

This piece is a one way mirror and a regular mirror with a neon light. When you look at it straight on it looks like the lights are making a tower. The artist is also an architect and this is the foot print of a building he made. It is suppose to look like you are on the bottom of the building looking up. 

I really loved this piece. You go into a dark room through a dark corridor. The only lights are the red lights. It is hard to see it in the photo but it looks like there is a screen in front of the red lights and then a wall. In actuality it is an illusion made by cleverly placed lights and a fog machine. The whole area is empty space but it definitely looks like a room. It was very very cool. I am impressed that this piece of art can travel. The exhibit has been lots of places and each museum has different rooms and stuff. It seems improbable that they could all create a room for this exhibit. I wonder if the artist has to go with it and recreate it in each new place. 

This was in it's own room. There was a projector and a fog machine. The projector projected shapes I would have made on my graphing calculator in high school but can't remember the names of now. What was being projected was not the interesting part. The cool part was watching the lines of light as they were projected. You were able to walk through them and be in a light tunnel or look under them. The piece is called Horizontal lines potentially because from the side all of the light lines look as though they are horizontal but as you move through the space and look from different angles you realize they aren't.