LUMIA LIGHT, THE ULTIMATE RORSCHACH
emerges from its amorphous shape, which I refer to as “textured light.” My preference as a Lumia artist is to create animated Lumias which present themselves as “morphing light sprites” or free-spirited light forms that constantly change in synchronization and color in use with music that is able to drive the color, and someday, the shape of the light.
As I watch the Lumias unfold, they always become a narration
of semi-abstract iconic imagery. Each Lumia image becomes a momentary picture of a somewhat familiar tangible object or
animal-like thing that floats across my mind as some entertaining Rorschach image.
As to Lumia’s origins, it was created by Denmark light artist, Thomas Wilfred (1889–1968) www.gis.net/~scatt/clavilux/clavilux.html, who began his exploration of light, color and motion in 1905. In 1913, he built his first light instrument and in 1920 gave one of his first light performances in his South Huntington, Long Island light studio.
My own quest to build the ultimate Lumia Projector began in 1999 and—through fits & starts—various versions of my Lumia projector, which I refer to as El Grande (The Big One), were started and aborted as each project start led to a dead-end of one kind
or another.
El Grande “speaks”
