Lightspeed (Light Sculptures)

  • Tanausu Herrera

Lightspeed Series: Fascinated by the properties of natural and artificial light Tanausu explores digital technology to create unique works of art that inspire and reflect upon the unseen, the unknown. Having discovered through earlier years of photographic experimentation that fluorescent lights produce light flickering unseen to the human eye, which essentially means that the power is turning on and off at around 60 times a second, an experiment was created at night time where a camera was positioned in a car speeding at 70km/h capturing Images with a slow shutter speed, recording the pulsation of fluorescent road lights through the Indian countryside. This imprinted the pulsating lamp's outline, its colours, the lights of passing vehicles and the shadows created by the trees between the car and the road lamps. This creates a flowing light sculpture that only lived for that particular moment but forever frozen on print. In this beautiful light sculptures Tanausu shows us a glimpse of a world not seen by the human eye , pushing the boundaries of conventional photography into a form of art that it is unique in the way that allows for the study of light and the interaction of light and matter, the fascinating observation and study of optical phenomena.