Through

"Through"
2016
Projection through cast colored resin
Dimensions variable

Transparent is a material that which allow light or image to go through. When I was young I always called ‘transparent’ as ‘ white color’, as I grow up I knew it is transparent other than white color. For me transparent it is quite neutral for like telling people they do not exist, but people do know they actually exist and we could see them.Different types of lights effects or images will shown due to different types of transparency or the types and materials of the transparency are made out of.

Now, when we only care about the “effects” that went through the transparency, will we still care and remember for the “transparency” that allows those lights or images to went through?

To represent the “transparency” I decided to use resin to create pieces by pieces which is 10cm x 10cm that textured with ocean’s waves. I choose to use ocean’s waves it is because I like the effects when lights go through and it turns out different angles of lights. I created 12 pieces with different gradient ocean colors and join them all together to become a complete rectangle shape. I hang it in front of the projector to let the light source which have movement ( I do not own the light source) to go through the ocean resin and create lights from different angles.

So when people see the effects of the lights will they still be able to though of or remember that actually the effects of lights was came out by a piece of ocean resin? The “effects” are like form of performance, it could be real or distort, and people like us are using our sense such as what our eyes see to get know the “things”. For the “transparency” are like the innate character which we get know them through our rationality like we knew that those lights effects are because they went through the transparency object which is the ocean resin.

This theory can be represent like how people treat a person or an incident. There’s none an exact answer for my question due to this answer are depends on each person. 

Some details from the artwork.