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My final year of practice has been exploring how light can be used as it's own artistic material to evoke The Sublime. Due to lockdown, I was not able to experiment with the projections on the scale I had hoped. Therefore, I used various tools to visualise these works in my ideal exhibition space within The Centre Of International Light Art, Unna, Germany. Bellow you will find my artist statement followed by five proposals for various installations, in which I selected the last, 'Nebula II' as my final degree show piece.
Artist Statement
Having a strong passion for the relationship between art and technology, she enjoys experimenting with new technologies, blurring the boundary between the real and virtual world.
My final year of practice has been exploring how light can be used as it's own artistic material to evoke The Sublime. Due to lockdown, I was not able to experiment with the projections on the scale I had hoped. Therefore, I used various tools to visualise these works in my ideal exhibition space within The Centre Of International Light Art, Unna, Germany. Bellow you will find my artist statement followed by five proposals for various installations, in which I selected the last, 'Nebula II' as my final degree show piece.
Artist Statement
Having a strong passion for the relationship between art and technology, she enjoys experimenting with new technologies, blurring the boundary between the real and virtual world.
Whilst on a trip to Triglav National Park, Slovenia, in 2017 (Slovenia’s largest protected area), she found herself overwhelmed with the natural beauty she was immersed in. A place which seemed unknown to human-kind, another-worldly landscape. Returning back to the studio, Lydia’s practice has stemmed from this particular feeling, exploring The Sublime within art. Using various new media technologies, Lydia creates her own worlds, producing audio-visual installations that go beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement or imitation.
More recently, Lydia has been exploring the theory of Pantheism, a philosophical belief from Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza. Spinoza explores the idea that God and Nature are one. God is not a transcendent, personal being who created the world, rather he is the Cosmos. With these concepts in mind, Lydia’s main material is light. Although light has many connotations with spirituality, the use of light is not used within her work to symbolise God but to create ephemeral installations that explore the idea of a greater power.
Solstice
This installation is two projected half circles positioned North and South within the exhibition space representing the two solstices that occur annually around June 21st and December 21st.
I decided not to use haze here, but draw the audience's attention to the shape of the rising sun mirroring the architecture within the space, allowing an audience to focus purely on the changes of gradient within this piece.
This installation is two projected half circles positioned North and South within the exhibition space representing the two solstices that occur annually around June 21st and December 21st.
I decided not to use haze here, but draw the audience's attention to the shape of the rising sun mirroring the architecture within the space, allowing an audience to focus purely on the changes of gradient within this piece.
View 1
Both projections: 5.7m width x 3m height
Both projections: 5.7m width x 3m height
View 2
Aether I
Aether is the material that fills the area of the universe above the terrestrial sphere being a material that allows light to travel through a vacuum, naturally moving in the shape of circles.
This installation is one projected circle with a black and white linear gradient. Visitors would be led to the main installation piece by a 19.7m light beam materialised by a fine mist of haze. The haze creates a sculptural form, blurring visitors perception of space and materiality as well as creating areas of negative space.
Aether is the material that fills the area of the universe above the terrestrial sphere being a material that allows light to travel through a vacuum, naturally moving in the shape of circles.
This installation is one projected circle with a black and white linear gradient. Visitors would be led to the main installation piece by a 19.7m light beam materialised by a fine mist of haze. The haze creates a sculptural form, blurring visitors perception of space and materiality as well as creating areas of negative space.
Projection: 5.7 width x 5.9m height
Haze sculptural form: 19.7m length
Haze sculptural form: 19.7m length
Aether II
Aether is the material that fills the area of the universe above the terrestrial sphere being a material that allows light to travel through a vacuum, naturally moving in the shape of circles.
This installation is one projected circle with a white and blue linear gradient. Like that of 'Aether I', visitors would be led down the space by a 19.7m sculptural haze form. The focus of this piece is not so much the circle, but the light beam materialized by the haze, reflecting the length and size of the cellar but also creating an illusion of a sculptural object in space.
Aether is the material that fills the area of the universe above the terrestrial sphere being a material that allows light to travel through a vacuum, naturally moving in the shape of circles.
This installation is one projected circle with a white and blue linear gradient. Like that of 'Aether I', visitors would be led down the space by a 19.7m sculptural haze form. The focus of this piece is not so much the circle, but the light beam materialized by the haze, reflecting the length and size of the cellar but also creating an illusion of a sculptural object in space.
'Nebula I'
A nebula is an enormous cloud of dust and gas occupying the space between stars and acting as a nursery for new stars. The roots of the word come from Latin nebula, which means a “mist, vapor, fog, smoke, exhalation.”
This installation is one projected circle with a three layered gradient. The projection would fill the whole space (25m²) inviting viewers to become lost in it's varied gradients and scale, hypnotising viewers into a 'thoughtless thought' of time and space. An installation which goes beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement or imitation.
A nebula is an enormous cloud of dust and gas occupying the space between stars and acting as a nursery for new stars. The roots of the word come from Latin nebula, which means a “mist, vapor, fog, smoke, exhalation.”
This installation is one projected circle with a three layered gradient. The projection would fill the whole space (25m²) inviting viewers to become lost in it's varied gradients and scale, hypnotising viewers into a 'thoughtless thought' of time and space. An installation which goes beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement or imitation.
Projection: 5.9 height x 5.7m width x Area 25m²
Haze sculptural form: 19.7m length
Haze sculptural form: 19.7m length
'Nebula II'
A nebula is an enormous cloud of dust and gas occupying the space between stars and acting as a nursery for new stars. The roots of the word come from Latin nebula, which means a “mist, vapor, fog, smoke, exhalation.”
This installation is one projected circle with a three layered gradient. The projection would fill the whole space (25m²) inviting viewers to become lost in it's varied gradients and scale, hypnotise viewers into a 'thoughtless thought' of time and space. An installation which goes beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement or imitation.
A nebula is an enormous cloud of dust and gas occupying the space between stars and acting as a nursery for new stars. The roots of the word come from Latin nebula, which means a “mist, vapor, fog, smoke, exhalation.”
This installation is one projected circle with a three layered gradient. The projection would fill the whole space (25m²) inviting viewers to become lost in it's varied gradients and scale, hypnotise viewers into a 'thoughtless thought' of time and space. An installation which goes beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement or imitation.
Projection: 5.9 height x 5.7m width x Area 25m²
Haze sculptural form: 19.7m length
Haze sculptural form: 19.7m length
