Body Image, light installation, Glow Winter Arts Festival, Greville Street, Melbourne. Photo James HH Morgan

Body Image, light installation, Glow Winter Arts Festival, Greville Street, Melbourne. Photo James HH Morgan

08 SCULPTURAL LIGHT - +

PROJECT: Body Image, 2015

SITE: Greville Street, Melbourne

CONCEPT:
Proportions of the human body in architecture
Design based on measurements in nature
Nature elements collected and photographed from the site
Light as sculpture

Bertram Mackennal, Circe, 1893
Born Fitzroy Melbourne
Femme fatale
Homer’s Odyssey, Circe a sorceress who turned her victims into beasts

PROCESS: 
Site documentation
Photography 
Building colour image legibility
Ambient lighting checks 
Template creation
Non rectilinear black mask to reveal building 
Artwork animation
External site to project from 
Building line up tests
Install and automation 

MEDUIM: 
Light work, HD video animation installation, looped 

MATERIALS:
Digital video
Barco projector and playback