Public LightShading | Shared infrastructure | My 3rd Term Finals | 2011
The history of Limburg will be told by shadows. Remembering the date of an important event of the neighbourhood in the past, the Sun -the most public light ever- will create a meaningful and recognizable shadow just at one specific moment of one day of the year. Inspired by the signage pollution in the streets, a new object will appear in the neighbourhood, an object made out of several “empty” sign elements around a real traffic sign where neighbours and new inhabitants can exchange information or find what they need, a physical board that will show and support the lively life of the neighbourhood. An object that, for instance, will reproduce the shadow of a no longer existing coalmine tower every year in the day when the mining industry stopped its activity in that enclave…
(+) The signage pollution in the streets is a problem that cities in are trying to remove. But for me, it’s possible to turn it to a new perspective without removing anything. Immediately, the sculptures of Alexander Calder came to my mind. What if I use this mess of signs to create or visualize something else? What if with these elements I can tell and show the history of the region? Of course, a lighting project is mainly aimed to think on the dark hours of the day, but these objects are also present during daylight. By combining two unique features of the Limburg region, I can create a meaningful action related with lighting: these two uniquenesses are the latitude of the place and the common regional heritage of Limburg. With the solar graphic of the latitude I can place and draw the shadow of an object on a specific day in a specific hour. So, I want to show the uniqueness of the Limburgish region by using the uniqueness of the latitude. Using these signage elements that don’t have any order, they become special, or better, their shadows become special just one day, in one specific hour, in one specific minute of the year, because only in that precise moment, the composition of these shadows creates a meaningful shape, and the shape itself is telling the story.
Some pages of my research booklet on the experiments and compositions with signage shadows are shown next:
Mentored by Thomas Lommee
Public LightShading | Shared infrastructure | My 3rd Term Finals | 2011
The history of Limburg will be told by shadows. Remembering the date of an important event of the neighbourhood in the past, the Sun -the most public light ever- will create a meaningful and recognizable shadow just at one specific moment of one day of the year. Inspired by the signage pollution in the streets, a new object will appear in the neighbourhood, an object made out of several “empty” sign elements around a real traffic sign where neighbours and new inhabitants can exchange information or find what they need, a physical board that will show and support the lively life of the neighbourhood. An object that, for instance, will reproduce the shadow of a no longer existing coalmine tower every year in the day when the mining industry stopped its activity in that enclave…
(+) The signage pollution in the streets is a problem that cities in are trying to remove. But for me, it’s possible to turn it to a new perspective without removing anything. Immediately, the sculptures of Alexander Calder came to my mind. What if I use this mess of signs to create or visualize something else? What if with these elements I can tell and show the history of the region? Of course, a lighting project is mainly aimed to think on the dark hours of the day, but these objects are also present during daylight. By combining two unique features of the Limburg region, I can create a meaningful action related with lighting: these two uniquenesses are the latitude of the place and the common regional heritage of Limburg. With the solar graphic of the latitude I can place and draw the shadow of an object on a specific day in a specific hour. So, I want to show the uniqueness of the Limburgish region by using the uniqueness of the latitude. Using these signage elements that don’t have any order, they become special, or better, their shadows become special just one day, in one specific hour, in one specific minute of the year, because only in that precise moment, the composition of these shadows creates a meaningful shape, and the shape itself is telling the story.
Some pages of my research booklet on the experiments and compositions with signage shadows are shown next:
Mentored by Thomas Lommee
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