Blog 2- 1st Semester light and shadow work

First Semester of Second year Work-

I feel like i should have started this blog right back in 1st year, however, you cant turn back time. So i am going to back track on the work i have done so far this year. I have made a promise to myself to upload even the stuff that i really hate.

Shadows and light:

I began the 1st semester of 2nd year studying shadows and light. I made a series of "shaddow + light drawings" done by tracing different patterns and shadows made on walls or surfaces by lightpatches (sort of like prism reflections) or objects which were being reflected and projected onto the surfaces by the natural light of the day.(i will try and scan those images onto here when i get to a scanner) light makes beautiful and unusual patterns that often go unnoticed. I wanted to document them.

I then went on to make a light box using a stencil i made from one of the shaddow drawings. the light box projected the image onto the wall (see above) and i was able to bend the light round corners and manipulate the way it looked. I thought it was really beautiful to see these amazing, natural shapes projected in large scale, this time using artificial light. I really liked the images i got from this shaddow box, however, due to technical difficulties, i ended up loosing all but this one image!

lightbulbs:

Since i was focusing on light i was using a lot of old lightbulbs, i began drawing the shaddow drawings onto the powder which is on the inside of most lightbulbs (i think it is called phosphor) and made these small sculptures using candles and the lightbulbs.

Some projections of the lightbulbs after they had been drawn on.

When i produced this work I didnt think it was very worthy of much as i was simply messing about with materials and ideas and there was no strong, underlying philosophy to my work.

I dont think the work that i did at this time was very strong or successful. However, looking back and with consideration of my current work, I think there are certain aspects which would work well with what i am focusing on now.