Detail of installation “Ignition” (1989- 1992), a work resulting from research into the current state of photovoltaic technology during those years, and a meditation on holography and it’s role as bridge to a predicted future, where the ingenuity of light would form a keystone to sustainable modes of energy production.
Within one of the objects “A Seed”, a white feather, slowly rotating above a dichromate hologram and within the center of a large concave, metate-like, pumice crete dish, transforms through chameleon-like color change. The hologram is made from an optic that when lit it bends each color in white light to a different focal point out in space, spreading this dispersion of colors or light frequencies onto the feather above. Implicated in this work is reference to a process that has a slow, arduous beginning, but poised for great change.
Full installation media: dichromate holograms, pumice-crete, motors, turkey feather, roofing paper, antique spectacles, solar cell, translucent fabric, fiber optics, halogen lights, horsetail reed, assorted materials.
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