/ Taming light
These are light refraction patterns or ‘caustics’ formed by a light beam passing through a shaped and textured plastic form. Various coloured dyes were added to the clear plastic as it hardened adding further distortions to the shapes. The pattern is captured directly on to 35mm film by removing the camera lens and putting the transparent object in its place. Please note these are not computer generated images but a true analog of the way light is refracted by the objects I create.
[Alan Jaras: “Taming Light”.]