angles and shadows.

You can always come in. Come in, make yourself at home. Home. Come in! Come on, press the buttons, click. Press the buttons, and click click click with us. Click and slurrr go the little strong lights on the railings on the ceiling. Slur. Slurrr they go and change positions and “they form a pattern, yet to be matched.” They form a pattern on the floor. A pattern, of shadows. Where do these shadows come from?

Trapped in between shadows and a source of light, there is always an object. If this object is unchanging, the variables that make (and/or break) the composition lie in the angles of light and the shadows. Shadows, however, are merely effects. “A change that is a result or consequences of an action or other cause,” | I’fekt |. Shadows cannot dictate the angles of light. The deciding variable in this equation is the light. Who, then, decides the angles of light?

If the object is fixed, that is. What if the object is ephemeral? What if it’s constantly moving?

But what, then, is not ephemeral in this world? And in this very world, is anything, or is everything, random? Who decides? Who decides not? Or is it rather “what”?

Angles and Shadows (working title) is my new installation work in progress. This text is a sketch for this new work.