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Liquid
I find beauty in the shapes and patterns born from the randomness of motion, observing how this interplay manifests uniquely across different materials. Whether it’s the fluidity of liquids swirling around solid forms or the way light bends and transforms as it interacts with various textures, each moment offers a new aesthetic experience. This project aims to capture that ephemeral beauty, exploring how light dances through solids and liquids, creating intricate designs that reflect the unpredictable nature of movement. In this exploration, I seek to celebrate the harmony that arises when chaos meets structure, revealing what is hidden in everyday phenomena.
This project aims to create complicated and nuanced reflection gradients that look simultaneously real and impossible. By sculpting the light and agitating the water, the goal is to develop randomness in the gradients that is difficult to create with intention. I also wanted to involve using transparency to let layers work together and suggest a 3D space. The combination of these gradients and transparent parts will give viewers an engaging visual experience, encouraging them to notice the details.
Exploration
For the initial explorations on this project, I suspended a clear piece of acrylic or a small glass mirror at the surface of a large plastic bin full of water dyed black. The dyed water was recycled from another project and was the perfect transparency to maximize reflections while allowing a controllable falloff for anything that was under water. Behind that, I set up a piece of diffusion paper and used RGB LED panels to project a smooth gradient through it. Once the reflections were controlled on the surface and in the mirror, I used an additional light to provide a highlight along the edge of the mirror for separation.
Once the lights were placed, I created waves on the surface of the water with different tools and techniques while shooting continuously, capturing hundreds of variations in just a few minutes.
