Orbit; EXPO Installation

by Dana Major

“My interactive light installations investigate how perception creates reality. Studio-made LEDs, repurposed glass, reflection, shadow, and lensing explore the surprise of worlds beyond what we usually see. The lenses of microscopy and astronomy show patterns and processes that, bound up with the inherent limitations of seeing, come to be called reality. My work brings an opportunity for slow observation of lights we see, but don’t notice, every day. There are no computers, no digital programming, and no projectors involved in my work. I fabricate my own light emitting diodes at the soldering table in order to control color and intensity. When the light leaves the emitter, it goes to me, the human maker, to lens, colorize, and move, and not to a computer that is limited to the parameters of its manufacture. This is slow light, at the pace of the human.”