Measured In Kelvin was an art installation collaboration between, photographer, Rafael Hernandez and myself. Rafael was interested in looking at the different kinds/colors of white light we are bombarded with in our day to day lives. From low pressure sodium in a parking garage, to the newly installed LED street lights, to the incandescent glow of the house across the street. He wanted to awaken peoples senses to the beauty and harshness of the lit world around them and re-mistify light that they saw every day. He asked me to come along and elaborate his photographs into being. I installed a 24' series of "white" light along a wall to show over time everything that your eye tells you is white. I also created a shadow casting wall that was lit from varying angles with complementary and contrasting colors. As time passed the angle and color combination changed to draw focus to how time and place affects our perception of light. There were moments where your shadow was entirely washed out and you just melted into the colored wall behind you. And there were moments, like the one pictured below, where contrasting colors made an apparently white wall, but the shadows told another story.
