Hanging led light on digitally printed aluminum fixture, chains, and titanium dioxide powder
18 x 5 x 1.3 feet (5.5 x 1.4 x 0.4 meters)
2018

Included as part of the exhibition The Sun Is Your Enemy, these works retool the materiality and aesthetics of light as a metaphor for perception at large. Upon entering the gallery, viewers are greeted by a nearly 18 foot hanging LED fixture which emanates a vibrant glow atop a corresponding rectangle of powdered titanium dioxide — a pigment found in stars and now used in everyday materials such as sunscreen, paint, and food coloring. From above, its matte aluminum casing mimics the interference patterns of light waves, extracted from physics textbooks, to contrast the distinctly artificial luminescence with both the imagery of light itself, and the material byproduct of celestial bodies — analogizing the forms of light as we know it.

The installation is accompanied by a pair of stretched digital prints on fabric titled Wandering Among Objects (Ripple Tank), 2018. Each: 53.5 x 15 inches (136 x 38 centimeters).

Installed at R/SF Projects, San Francisco, California, 2018.