The initial idea behind the PenduLight was to capture the movement of a pendulum’s plumb, equipped with an RGB LED, allowing the path to be recorded in a long exposer. I wanted to be able to influence the plumb’s movements. To do this, I attached the suspension cable to a lever arm, which in turn was attached to a stepper motor. I used a toggle to change direction and a rotary potentiometer to change the speed.
pendulight
movement to create a captured moment
This work consists of two spaces experienced one at a time in sequence: the first in the form of an ephemeral light painting, and the second is the mechanism by which the light painting was made. In creating this work [sculpture] in an iterative and open-ended way, I explored the relationship between experience and interpretation, learned more about the relationship between the spaces I created, and asked questions about subjectivity and the value of experience.
