London group show coming in the spring!
By working predominantly with camera-less photography, as well as
projection and light installation, I aim to make contact with the intangibility
of light; the way it can exist and not exist, dictate its requisition and allow
for the discovery of the world around, as well as beyond, ourselves.
Birefringence is caused when light passes through a material with molecules of no uniformity. When that material is stressed or layered the ray’s speed is altered, causing a variety of colours to occur when polarised. By magnifying and capturing the results of this process, the work looks into the phenomenon with a pseudo-scientific methodology; its objectivity being interrupted by the awe of the scientific.
For the past three years I have produced work aimed at creating a visual reading of stress birefringence in cellulose materials. Initially the work took the form of photographic C-prints and has recently developed to include projections from the material encased in slides.
tom@tflynn.com
07533064296