Here are the final images from last week’s assignment on bounced color. I feel that I have found a form that I like and can experiment with and I have been trying to make different iterations of it. They are not ready to post yet, but I have been angling the cuts and playing with making a circular lantern using semi opaque materials like vellum. A few suggestions from my classmates included using different colors to bounce onto the surface, or to even use an image. Someone also mentioned how it would be interesting to orient the cuts in response to different times of day. Sort of like a vertical sundial, where depending on the shadows or shapes on the walls, you can tell what time it is. I think my next step can be to explore some or all of these ideas.
For my changing light study I recorded the inside wall of my lighting model and observed the shadows as the light source changed around it. The results are more interesting than I thought. I discovered that as the light moved and was interrupted by the different openings, it created an almost kaleidoscope effect on the walls. Thinking how this could translate into my lantern idea, I am reminded of these lanterns I’ve seen that rotate with the light source inside of it, probably a tea light. The design is usually simple, a rectangle with a motif cut out of one side that is then projected onto the walls.