Unfolding/Enfolding, Implicate/Explicate Print

The unique art piece is an A1 sized light box that is overlaid with three separate layers of printed acrylic. The image is a celebration of the translucency of the cloth and flow of the folds and was developed from a photograph of folds of organza cloth. It was processed in Photoshop to create halftone dots creating a less detailed image; the eye/brain axis fills the spaces between the dots to complete the image. The image is created by a series of overlapping magenta, cyan and yellow dots and each colour is printed on its own layer of acrylic. Each printed layer acts as a filter, filtering out specific wavelengths of white light. Where the colours of the filters overlap and more light is subtracted and the other colours, red, orange, green, blue and black are created through subtractive colour mixing. With subtractive colour theory, magenta and cyan create blue, magenta and yellow create red, and cyan and yellow create green. When magenta, cyan and yellow are all layered together they create black which is the result of subtracting (i.e. absorbing) all wavelengths of light. This is an example of a positive image being created through a process of subtraction. Each sheet of clear acrylic is mounted a short distance from the others other, so that each layer inhabits a plane of its own. The decision for separating the colours into planes of their own was as a result of noticing this effect when looking through diffraction grating in a previous piece. I observed that when a grid of black beads is seen through diffraction grating, it seems as if shadows of the shapes of the beads are split into spectrum colours and are cast on to planes of their own. The space between the layers creates the illusion of a dynamic movement of the colours of the image as a viewer shifts position. The colours appear to shift as the viewer moves, particularly at the edges of the forms within the image. The viewer is in relationship with every separate dot and each dot is discrete but is in relationship to all the others. The eye, as an optical measuring apparatus, registers that the distance between each dot and these distances do not alter equally and as the viewer shifts position the relationships change. The dots represent the particles that are within matter. Each atom in the universe is almost empty and the spaces within and around particles are vast in comparison to the material aspect of the particles. I make a suggestion of the space between particles in my treatment of the image (though not in the immense proportions that actually exist). The visual effects created in this art work are most noticeable at the edges of the forms, it is not possible to determine exactly where the margin lies. This is consistent with my theme of indeterminate boundaries and what we know from quantum physics. Another of the themes that this work represents is the paradox of unity from multiplicity. At a certain distance the image unifies and the whole image is clear, however, close up, one sees all the separate dots and loses the gestalt of the whole. This piece is inspired by my PhD research. I explore the phenomena of light and matter, specifically investigating ideas of wave/particle duality. I am inspired by physicists Louis de Broglie and David Bohm who posed that, at the quantum level, matter exists as both particles and waves. This art piece directly references Bohm's theories of wholeness and the implicate/explicate orders. The artwork is housed in a black wooden box frame. It has a proprietary LED light panel with an LED AC adapter (100-240 V ac). Flat panel wall fixings are included. For indoor use only.

Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:12 W x 9 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:17.25 W x 14.25 H x 1.2 D in

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