Light Song I, II & III

From "Prussian Blue" at Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Noida

Light Song 1

Cyanotype on Cotton and Silk thread

Installation dimensions- 145” X 210″ X 110”

Light Song – Installation view

Cyanotype on Paper, Cotton and Silk thread

 

Entrance: Light Song 1

Cyanotype on Cotton and Silk thread

Installation dimensions- 145” X 210″ X 110”

Light Song 1

Cyanotype on Cotton and Silk thread

Installation dimensions- 145” X 210″ X 110”

Detail: Light Song 1

Cyanotype on Cotton and Silk thread

Installation dimensions- 145” X 210″ X 110”

Detail: Light Song 1

Cyanotype on Cotton and Silk thread

Installation dimensions- 145” X 210″ X 110”

Installation view: Light Song 1

Cyanotype on Cotton and Silk thread

Installation dimensions- 145” X 210″ X 110”

Installation view: Light Song 1

Cyanotype on Cotton and Silk thread

Installation dimensions- 145” X 210″ X 110”

Installation view: Light Song 1 & 3

Cyanotype on Cotton and Silk thread

 

Light Song 3 (dyptich)

Cyanotype on Silk threads

47″ x 33. 25″,

47″ x 32″

Light Song 3 (part of dyptich)

Cyanotype on Silk threads

47″ x 33. 25″

Light Song 3 (part of dyptich)

Cyanotype on Silk threads

47″ x 32″

Detail: Light Song 3 

Cyanotype on Silk threads

Detail: Light Song 3 

Cyanotype on Silk threads

Light Song 2

Cyanotype on paper

Total Dimensions: 10.5 ft X 7.5ft (wall) and 7.5ft  X 31″ (floor)

 

Light Song 2

Cyanotype on paper

Total Dimensions: 10.5 ft X 7.5ft (wall) and 7.5ft  X 31″ (floor)

 

Gathering the Light: Process for Light Song 2

Individual photos of Light streaming in through the windows were stitched together and mapped to create Light Song 2.

Gathering the Light: Process for Light Song 2

Individual photos of Light streaming in through the windows were stitched together and mapped to create Light Song 2.

Process for Light Song 2

 

Detail: Light Song 2

Cyanotype on paper

Total Dimensions: 10.5 ft X 7.5ft (wall) and 7.5ft  X 31″ (floor)

Light Song 2

Cyanotype on paper

Total Dimensions: 10.5 ft X 7.5ft (wall) and 7.5ft  X 31″ (floor)

Light Song 2

Cyanotype on paper

31″ X 23″

Light Song 1

Cyanotype on Cotton and Silk thread

Installation dimensions- 145” X 210″ X 110”

Mapping in space: Process for Light Song 1

 

Cyanotype chemical coated floor piece at various stages of exposure to sun: Process for Light Song 1

 

Unraveling and stretching thread, painting it with Cyanotype fluid and exposing each thread to sunlight: Process for Light Song 1

 

Exposing each  coated thread to sunlight and washing: Process for Light Song 1

Tying threads onto pin heads: Process for Light Song 1

Marking position for each thread (rays): Process for Light Song 1

Light Song – Installation view

Cyanotype on Paper, Cotton and Silk thread

Light Song – Installation view

Cyanotype on Paper, Cotton and Silk thread

Entrance:  Light Song 1

Images of Light created by shielding and exposing parts of (Cyanotype chemical coated) surfaces from and to Light.

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LIGHT SONG

When invited to participate in this show “Prussian Blue”,  I was most drawn to the light-sensitive quality of this pigment, which enabled the invention of Architectural Blueprints. A variation on the Blueprint process, “Cyanotype” involves coating the paper, thread or fabric with a mixture of chemicals, which when exposed to sunlight  generate a deep Prussian blue. Areas of the image which one wants to retain as the white of the original surface are blocked from receiving the sunlight.

 

This series uses light as both – as subject matter and as a key material ingredient which creates images (or blueprints) of itself.  In Light Song 1 each thread (resembling a light ray) is individually coated with Cyanotype chemicals and exposed to sunlight. In Light Song 2 and 3, images of light and shadow (registered on a wall and floor by rays coming in through window panes) are created by exposing and shielding parts of the coated paper surfaces/ silk threads from sunlight. They play with the poetic paradox that images of light emerge by denying light to the very areas which articulate it.