The layout of our installation changed may times during the development of this project.
The final layout for the exhibition was determined by the space that we had at the Kinetica exhibition, which was light in comparison to our work space in the TVU basement and the space was wider, but shorter than what we had experimented with.
We had planned to suspend our light source from nylon line attached to a tiny 3V battery a nice discreet suspension, but due to the lightness of Kinetica and the dullness of our LED connected to the battery we went back to our back up plan of using a mains powered volt converter.
Using the power supply was a compromise, as using the cable running over our mobile for suspending our light source looked bulky and also effected the flow and movement of our mobile.
The mobile was designed to have a free motion of up, down and also in a circular motion, but the cable restricted this movement and really only allowed an up and down motion, this give a limited light shape reflection on the canvas above.
We originally had planned on suspending one sail like canvas above our mirror and light which was silk organza that displayed the light reflection very well, but as we had no celling for the light that seeps through the organza to catch onto at Kinetica we decided to add a second canvas at an almost horizontal position which emulated the celling.
All the elements were suspended with nylon line which gave a lovely sense of floating to our installation, the exhibit was to be viewed from the front and not to be walked around as we had far to many nylon lines. Ideally we would love for the viewer to be able to walk all the way around.
As the viewer viewed our work from the front we needed to alter the angle of the silk organza canvas to allow visitors walking by the view the light forms from afar to draw in people.
Our mobile consisted of a 35cm length of metal suspended from a line of nylon and from either end of the length of metal was a line of nylon. On the left side attached was a silk organza triangular sail with tiny fishing weights hanging from the end of the line, 11 in total to balance the other end of the rod, which has suspended the power cable a small metal tube which houses the super bright 3V white LED.
To give the mobile as much movement as possible with the power cable attached we attached two fans to the left and right side wall of our exhibition space. This did give the mobile the up, down movement we were looking for but not the circular motion as the power cable restricted this.
The overal feeling and response from our installation was very positive and people seemed to be wowed by its simplicity and how such 3D light forms were form from just a mirror and light source.
Things i would like to improve on would be to try painting the walls of our exhibition space black as the pictures we had taken in the basement in a much darker environment were so beautiful, but did make the light reflection the made focus of our installation. I think the mobile and the free movement is also something that needs work on and the possibility of hanging the elements of the piece to enable the viewer to walk all the way around the piece in a much larger and darker environment.
Our artwork is an ongoing experiment into light, movement, kinetics, air and natural forms that are all around us, it also due our module criteria looks into interaction, immersive and virtual art works.
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