house of reflection
A RELECTION AND REFRACTION OF ENCASED LIGHT
house of reflection
A RELECTION AND REFRACTION OF ENCASED LIGHT
reflecting tunnel
The Reflecting Tunnel is composed of laminated dichroic panels, an A frame structure and sculpted light flowers.
The dichroic wall panels reflect light in one color spectrum and transmit in another or reflect light in different colors depending on the viewers’ position.
The user can simultaneously see the outside world through the filtered window and their altered reflection. The tunnel structure is in the obvious shape of an A framed house, a common symbol of comfort and safety.
reflecting tunnel
The Reflecting Tunnel is composed of laminated dichroic panels, an A frame structure and sculpted light flowers.
The dichroic wall panels reflect light in one color spectrum and transmit in another or reflect light in different colors depending on the viewers’ position.
The user can simultaneously see the outside world through the filtered window and their altered reflection. The tunnel structure is in the obvious shape of an A framed house, a common symbol of comfort and safety.
reflect & connect
The public is encouraged to take shelter within the structure and reflect on their connection to their internal and external sense of place.
The view from within the art shows a distorted and colored reflection of oneself and the view outside shows the waterfront, the port, the city, and the festival all in color tones opposite to the light from within.
sustainable art
Sustainability is an integral requirement to my art with a high recycled content and the artwork produced entirely in Long Beach.
The recycled art has intrinsic dimensionality as colored plastic and glass – once waste material – suspended in optically clear resin that reflects and refracts light as one passes through it.
The art creates a dynamic and interactive surface that ‘moves’ as viewers move. Natural light cast through the tunnel creates additional effects; colorful projections either within the art or onto the ground increase the interactive quality of the system. By night, the LED illuminated flower lights create a centerpiece as a brilliant sustainable light beacon.
optical enginnering
Within the art exists an interplay between ‘natural’ and ‘artificial’ processes.
Recycled plastic is extruded and then impregnated with bubbles as the foundation for each piece; colored discs with unique character.
Optical engineering techniques optimize projected and absorbed wavelengths of light, combining the brilliant color of engineered light diffusers with the randomized character of air in water.
These discs are suspended in optical resin in a lamination process that further creates randomized patterns of trapped gases among the carefully arranged plastic and glass discs – blurring the distinction between ‘organic’ and ‘inorganic’ material.
The resulting panels and cylinders – laminated within clear acrylic and polycarbonate – are a sensuously confusing mix of engineered calculation and organic chance.
reflect & connect
The public is encouraged to take shelter within the structure and reflect on their connection to their internal and external sense of place.
The view from within the art shows a distorted and colored reflection of oneself and the view outside shows the waterfront, the port, the city, and the festival all in color tones opposite to the light from within.
sustainable art
Sustainability is an integral requirement to my art with a high recycled content and the artwork produced entirely in Long Beach.
The recycled art has intrinsic dimensionality as colored plastic and glass – once waste material – suspended in optically clear resin that reflects and refracts light as one passes through it.
The art creates a dynamic and interactive surface that ‘moves’ as viewers move. Natural light cast through the tunnel creates additional effects; colorful projections either within the art or onto the ground increase the interactive quality of the system.
By night, the LED illuminated flower lights create a centerpiece as a brilliant sustainable light beacon.
optical engineering
Within the art exists an interplay between ‘natural’ and ‘artificial’ processes.
Recycled plastic is extruded and then impregnated with bubbles as the foundation for each piece; colored discs with unique character.
Optical engineering techniques optimize projected and absorbed wavelengths of light, combining the brilliant color of engineered light diffusers with the randomized character of air in water.
These discs are suspended in optical resin in a lamination process that further creates randomized patterns of trapped gases among the carefully arranged plastic and glass discs – blurring the distinction between ‘organic’ and ‘inorganic’ material.
The resulting panels and cylinders – laminated within clear acrylic and polycarbonate – are a sensuously confusing mix of engineered calculation and organic chance.
