Casey May McGuire

The Levitating Qualities of Light, Through Closed Eyes | 2008

image of the Levitating Qualities of Light, Through Closed Eyes project

In Levitating Qualities of Light, Through Closed Eyes, I have created a contemplative space for varying qualities if light, warm light, cold florescent light and the illuminating qualities of video projection. The lighting contemplates absence, death and the parallel structures of perceived existences, above, below and a purgatory of being trapped underwater. In the enlarged children’s pool made of sheet aluminum there is video- projection of a shadowy figure that appears to be swimming or struggling in the water. There are fishing poles with light bulbs that hang through out the space, and two ice-fishing shanties that are illuminated from underneath with florescent light, this is the only lighting in the gallery space. One shanty has a solitary fish swimming in the abandoned shanty and a lone, elevated chair acts as a stand in figure of authority.

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