Diffraction

Diffraction is the product of a year's research during her Master's programme at Chelsea College of Art & Design. During that year her focus was placed on analysing the process of transformation on a perceptual level, and how it happens in space and through time.

The way we perceive space is directly associated with the way we experience it through our bodily senses. Our sense of vision is the most evident to us, and as a result the most important in our understanding of space. For this reason, studies of light and colour are central to her work.

This piece challenges the viewer's spatial perception and, through the slow process of transformation, lets them appreciate the qualities of the light travelling through space. Light is materialised when it passes through the slabs of ice, and the colours projected provoke a spatial sense and generate an emotional response. The movement of the sun and the melting of the ice are representative of the passing of time.