Making light work...
My aim is to use sunlight (such a good healer) and/or ambient light to bring to life colour tubes and reflective objects. I am also looking at all the little incidences in life where light and/or reflections grab my interest...
Wednesday, 18 July 2007
'Found' Light
The quality of light was amazing on the water in Croatia last week - one day quite stormy and the next so still and clear...
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I loved the softer, dappled, natural light in the sea scenes from Croatia. The use of light with the bottles and primary colours seemed harsh and less attractive by comparison. I have enjoyed looking around your blog Lynda...so well done
Lynda Great experiments with light. We "see through a glass darkly" seems so apt in our struggle with perception and your exploration of light illustrates how much we are not yet seeing.
I also loved the sea in the Croatian pictures because of its natural beauty and light. However I also really love the ones of the bottles really close up. The reflections in eachother and the blending of colours made me ponder. Is this what happens to us when we come close together, we blend and reflect eachother's light?
I had to look up your quote and find it is a biblical one!
"For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face; now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known." 1 Corinthians 13:12 King James Version
I think it says so much - my reading of it is that normally we see only part of life but when meeting face to face we can understand more, not just how we see but how others see. Seeing only from our own perspective gives us a very limited view - as if through translucent (not transparent) glass.
This is relevant to the later photos and video clips that I have been taking - where reality is shown through reflections - which is the real object and what extra information do we gain from seeing it in this way?
I also agree with your idea that we 'reflect' off/into each other, blending with each other's light and aura - no doubt some would say chakra. Our electrical fields must exert influence on each other, hence our need, often, to maintain a space around us, and the need too, to move closer to those we feel empathy with. It's an interesting line of thought and one I'll be able to follow
This is a really diverse mix of images. I like the pieces where light, irrespective of colour, gives a sense of perspective.
Light on the Croatian sea and sky creates depth and interest compared to the shaded buildings, and the light reflected in your steel tubes and CD leads the eye into another dimension...
4 comments:
I loved the softer, dappled, natural light in the sea scenes from Croatia.
The use of light with the bottles and primary colours seemed harsh and less attractive by comparison.
I have enjoyed looking around your blog Lynda...so well done
Lynda
Great experiments with light. We "see through a glass darkly" seems so apt in our struggle with perception and your exploration of light illustrates how much we are not yet seeing.
I also loved the sea in the Croatian pictures because of its natural beauty and light. However I also really love the ones of the bottles really close up. The reflections in eachother and the blending of colours made me ponder. Is this what happens to us when we come close together, we blend and reflect eachother's light?
Judith
I had to look up your quote and find it is a biblical one!
"For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face; now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known."
1 Corinthians 13:12 King James Version
I think it says so much - my reading of it is that normally we see only part of life but when meeting face to face we can understand more, not just how we see but how others see. Seeing only from our own perspective gives us a very limited view - as if through translucent (not transparent) glass.
This is relevant to the later photos and video clips that I have been taking - where reality is shown through reflections - which is the real object and what extra information do we gain from seeing it in this way?
I also agree with your idea that we 'reflect' off/into each other, blending with each other's light and aura - no doubt some would say chakra. Our electrical fields must exert influence on each other, hence our need, often, to maintain a space around us, and the need too, to move closer to those we feel empathy with.
It's an interesting line of thought and one I'll be able to follow
Lynda
Lynda
This is a really diverse mix of images. I like the pieces where light, irrespective of colour, gives a sense of perspective.
Light on the Croatian sea and sky creates depth and interest compared to the shaded buildings, and the light reflected in your steel tubes and CD leads the eye into another dimension...
D
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