LIGHTING

Oh.

They filled them with paint, that same as that one up there.

Oh, so if that was gouged out completely we don't have any way to test to se what light that would pick up .

It would pick up lots.

Lots of light.

More than with paint.

Because paint blocks light.

There might be a variance of the light level going up to the top . It would suck up a lot of light if it was filled out. Not only that it would be tough for the guys to fill all those because they'd have to pick off...

No, I'm not even wanting paint, necessarily.

The lighting changed except in this one. It's nearest to the original lighting. The other artists put their own sense of lighting in their landscapes.

Well, they say mountains wear over time or change over time so...

Yeah, that's interesting.

This one's lively and fresh like morning time. Mom's looks like dusk.

These two are by the same artist but the lighting is a bit different in each of them also. Maybe she did them at different times.

What I'm interested in is the lighting in these.

You know it varies.

How many variations on one painting. I can read into that.

I would say that this one really copied that lighting except that's an old picture so it's...

And the others have put their own version of lighting into it. Every one of you has put your own...

Different moods eh?

Yeah.

I think it's amazing how we...

No, It wouldn't be black because you'd have the white light caught on that and the white light illuminating the screen colours that are here.

One thing about the white wall is that you get shadows.

Yeah, Oh definitely. Actually a whole ambiance of lights.

This one is so beautiful with the two colours when you get the crossing of the light. But it would cost me quite a bit to put two housings on it--one for each layer.

But Vera you can just split the strip of lights so that half of the housing could be blue and the other half could be green and there would be a bit of a fade where they meet.

Oh, Yeah, Several of these LED strips could be put together., You wouldn't have to have all one colour.

Alright. Or we could even cut them into four and alternate between the colours.

Yeah, the smallest the strips can be cut is this large.

You would have room for several changes.

Vera, you could go blue, green, blue, green and get virtually that effect.

I like crisp and tidy.

The show has many parts so it would be best to tidy it up as much as possible to counteract the complexity.

The reason I say crisp and tidy is because the magic is the light.

Yeah. The piece is manufactured and beautiful but the magic is the light. The magic happens when you can't see how the magic happens.

Yes, that's a good point.

And a lot of the piece is about the magic that you never see. We'll have to add our own narrative and ah, I think that's kind of the magic of it.

The look of this one is that way but I was planning to have light on ...

I had planned to have light on the writing and have it engraved. I had no way to simulate the routering so that's why these are printed on my printer.

Uhm hm.

So this is just to show that it goes in front. And ah, But if we

What if the back plate isn't illuminated? What if we took and image like this and reproduced it on to something like this?

Yes.

And that we would put it on to the acrylic and then introduce the writing so it's only the writing that's illuminated and this image is not illuminated on the back plate.

So we just have one set of lights then?

Well, yeah, and it's just a different concept.

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