Paula Pakery Keller

Born in Basle/Switzerland living and working in Basle and international mixed media artist, member of professional artists and unesco,

Pakery`s new works are art out of lightstones.

Lightstones are cast stones with natural minerals. Concrete and water are mixed together with the selected minerals in a basin like a "pastry". From this point of view it would simply be just a normal concrete stone.But the speciality of the lightstones are, that into the pastry are embedded optical glass fibres, so called optical waveguides. Just the same which are used for the fibre-optic communication. An optical fibre is a flexible, transparent fibre made from pure glass not much wider than a human hair. Thereby the result is the newly formed light-transmissive material.The artist Paula Pakery has worked for many years among others on the theme of light. Thus it is not surprising that she is fascinated by this new possibility of capturing or trapping light. She starts thinking about the material, taking it away from its habitus of structural engineering and creating artworks of everyday pleasure.These artworks sculpted from Lightstones are affect by daylight as well as by artifical light as if they carry inside little candles or pearls...