Lemon Bomb Face: I Win Well - Limited Edition of 1 Artwork

Mechanized light painting with light fixture, UV light tube, daylight tube, UV pigment, motor, Arduino, components, wood panel, steel frame. Lemon Bomb Face is an ongoing series of mechanized light paintings where words are hidden and revealed by two types of light: ultraviolet and daylight. I Win Well is part 2 of the series. The linear-motion mechanism carries a dual light fixture back and forth across the face of a mounted board. Text is painted on the board with UV pigment, applied with customized 3D-printed rubber stamps. The light fixture creates a vertical division across the board, revealing the text as the UV light illuminates the fluorescence bi-product, and the daylight conceals it. This work is inspired by my interest in how information is hidden and revealed, edited and leaked. It’s a response to how information, whether it’s learned or simply just flowing at you for incontinent feeds, shapes our perceptions of what it defines. It comments on the ability it has to be meaningful or equally meaningless, pithy, and instantly non-existent. The text is designed on the stamps to print a certain word, phrase, or part of a document. Words are arranged as such to be fragmented, twisting their form, making repeating statements and/or questions, and imitating the visible positive/negative space boundaries created by redacted documents (found online). Choices for the text are inspired from sources deemed “questionable”, such as Donald Trump’s twitter feed, political discourse, some email scams, Fox news, etc.. Chosen from caustic political discourse, headline speak with ambivalent meanings, and incontinent information feeds, we’re left to decode as it comes at us. The two light tubes run continuously back and forth, displaying an ongoing hide/show of the static words. This piece is electronic, must be professionally installed, and it moves. Video documentation of the piece in motion can be viewed here: https://vimeo.com/241444961