Light of Other Days

Created and presented at the MaryMoody Gallery - Canyon, TX - 2015

The installation titled “Light of Other Days” was in reference to Bob Shaw’s short story about ‘slow glass’, a pane of glass in which it took light, a long time, sometimes years to pass through. This material becomes a window into the past. The installation was fully suspended, oscillating between being a single gesture, and splitting apart. It hung between dissected projected video of MIT researchers documenting - for the first time - a single photon flying through a coca-cola bottle, at a trillion frames per second. The projected videos were divided in half, and timed, so that for a moment, the photon cannot be seen. The installation was delving into deeper the connection between glass, time, and light. Knowing that light travels 40% slower in glass than in a vacuum, presents some relative reference. It would take a bullet 3 years to enter the coke bottle and hit the lid, if it were filmed at this speed.