CONSTRUCTIONS (2025)
light without color
CONSTRUCTIONS is a spatiodynamic installation where industrial light sculptures become instruments of time, perception, and material resonance. 6 hand-fabricated sculptures using steel, acrylic glass, timber, sod, soil, and three kinds of light sources (incandescent, LED, and low-pressure sodium vapor) change our perception of space and color through a light-based performance using internet-based relays. 5 performers use the relays to "play" the sculptures by turning them on and off remotely.
Initially performed as a symphonic work for sonic sculptures, the installation explores illumination and its inverse, revealing the technological architectures that mediate movement, space, and placemaking. Salvaged high-intensity discharge streetlamps from Palomar, CA, bear the histories of their function, marking shifts in industrial fabrication and civic planning. These lights impose on you a perceptive monochromy, collapsing color into shadows and textures, constructing space itself. This constriction, far from an erasure, produces an intensification: textures heighten, shadows sharpen, and objects lose their categorical immediacy.