WOODWORKING X DESIGN
Painting with Light
MDF, Acrylic, Pine, Plywood, and LED Lights. Custom Adobe Illustrator design, laser cut on mdf.
My contemporary works start with underpaintings that are alive, mimicking moments of fluorescence in nature. Bright colors flashing across the vision, slow colors that seem to dance off the model as she sits under monotonous gaze. My process begins with this luminance which I then cover up, layer by layer.
This sculpture represents and engenders my process. Its light has sculpted my images. I used it to light several of my portrait series with an eerie yellow glow. The frequency of the color in these works is consistent with the frame of mind and emotional space the images are meant to convey.
Enter my studio.
See here the process of creating a wooden light box. For my first woodworking project, I created a vector design that I translated into a laser cutter for the top of my box. I encased the face of the design in glass and created a frosted-style hand-sanded glass to blur the light backing the image. The box was constructed to fill space, and to have presence. It’s heavy, sturdy, and solid. The piece is meant to be the centerpiece, the way a painting would demand your attention.