033
LIGHT THROUGH THE WINDOW IN THE DEAD OF WINTER
stockholmIn the living room of my apartment, Stockholm Sweden, having an idea for an art installation: to recreate the living room wall, the MD40 lamp shining in through the blinds of the window from a high powered street lamp about 50 meters away. A closer, more focused MD40 five meters outside of the triple paned glass, trio of windows, projected onto the far wall, everything triangulated and striped. A stack of books emulates the horizontal line. A color shift can be seen, blues and purples in the vertical lines separating the windows. The horizontal cast from the blinds span the entire room so that as I walk before it my own shadow is cast, repeated, split, fractured, parallax span of blue gray silver purples cast from the most distant street lamp and the perfect white cinematic patterns of passing cars casting a range of movements, then butterscotch yellow of the closer streetlamp casting a blurred moiré over the other corner wall. The closer an object is to the wall the more stark and clear the contrast of its shadow, so that casting these light patterns over various object before a scrim would be a profound environment for a psychedelic experience or phantasmagoric theater background - a psychotropic projection screen of movement-speed velocity, flickering frame rate of the mind programmed by body movements and a visual mechanics in automatically composing what is before the eyes. The experience correlates to the shadows of moon through a forest upon the winter snow, dust dancing in the air between sun beams, the 2D+3D intermingling, connected to the photosynthesis of plants drinking up pure light through tendrilled fingers unfurling towards the source, muscle fibers in animals reduced to their most essential state of striations visually imposed upon a world of things. Daniel Buren's paintings of stripes and their relation to wood grain, lines on a page, writing, the power of reduction to permeate all things - towards a universal language of forms. Distinguish the black of the text from the white of the page.