Light Palettes (2015)
Artist statement
From ancient Greek, the word “photography” literally means drawing with light. This essence of film-based photography is rooted in its photochemical process, unlike a digital image that’s represented by tiny little dots known as pixels. Acknowledging the inherent difference between film and digital image renditions, this series attempts to demonstrate a shared approach to producing colors with light.Geometric shapes in primary colors of light (red, green, and blue) are first created on a computer. The desired graphic patterns, displayed by an LCD monitor, are then captured on color reversal film. Through multiple exposures, a process known as additive color mixing allows light with various wavelengths to blend and combine together, resulting in different corresponding colors (yellow, cyan, magenta, and white) in the overlapping sections of the shapes.