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Spectral

Rhys Votano 
Performed by Lilly Graham
One or Multi-screen video
3x5 meters per screen
8 second loop in perpetuity
2018

Light ranges across a spectrum of colours which we all perceive with varying degrees. At one end we have UV and the other end Infra-red though in the middle are the primary colours of light perception; red, blue, green, and all their various combinations. Spectral uses this rainbow of colours to light the space as the body moves through it.

Each image in the Weight of Light series takes one second of perceived time to create. By perceived I am referring to the time we naturally experience. The images are constructed by blending this one second of perceived time with 1/8th of slowed time. Spectral highlights this duration by projecting various clocks into the space, each of which is one second long.

The eye blinks, the mind cuts but light emits on a slower and more constant presence. By remaining in a perpetual loop, our reception of the image is built in of itself, assign new meanings with every repetition of the second.

© 2023 by Rhys Votano

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