Dragers van het Licht
2022
This project is an elaborate exercise in spacial imagination. In it, an existing sculpture in the city of Eindhoven is analysed and then transformed using digital and physical media. The goal is to create a new version of the statue, that sheds some light on the statues inherent features, and its effect on the space it is located in.
The final product is an ode to the original statue: “Dragers van het Licht”. Keeping key aspects of the sculpture alive while adding new symbolic meaning and spatial and individual interaction with the statue. The wireframes that represent the three elevations and the canvases that capture the light so that those 2D elevations form depth through their shadow represent the spatial tools used by Albert Termote.
The relocation to the sidewalk and the space between the light, wireframe and the canvases was to stimulate interaction between the viewer and the sculpture, allowing the viewer to experience the sculpture by movement through it, resulting in the viewer becoming part of that sculpture. The orientation of the canvases towards the road were to show the projections towards the pedestrian, suggesting to them that they could change that silhouette themselves. The distance between the canvas and the wireframe was also a nod to the expansion of humanities space in the day, by carving off a piece of the night and making it useable again.
With this sculpture we explored the “portraying & composition” by framing the cast shadows creating a foreground (wireframe) and a background (canvas). The “form & residual form” were used by suggesting form through the wireframe, the cast shadows that flows from the sculpture onto the ground and onto the canvases makes it questionable what the actual sculpture is. The “people & interaction” was explored by encouraging interaction of individuals with the cast shadows. And “tone & shadow” has been implemented through the canvas and the cast shadows of the wireframe, creating a high contrast projection that presents itself to the pedestrian.
