HALO

Halo is a timed kinetic light installation. A motor pulls a carbon rod through a bearing yoke assembly guiding the rod through an eccentric arc. Tipped by a point of the light the light scribes an eccentric orbit.
There are several configurations in which the installation operates and whose movement can be read and interpreted in multiple ways.

TIME
In the horizontal plane the light moves in its slow arc, a singular point source framed in Cartesian space in the X, Y, Z AXIS. Each light placement can be described with precision. Yet there is another dimension in which the point source can only be revealed by compressing the dimension into a singular point or moment. This is done by capturing the light with a time machine as it scribes its arc through Cartesian space. The time machine in question is a camera, mounted on a tripod that can capture a long exposure and compress the movement of one minute into a singular frame.

LIGHT
Mounting in the vertical plane A canvas of deep velveteen black absorbs much ambient light allowing no bounce or reflection, yet spotted with puddles of glossy glass light refracts and bounces. The point of light moves about the canvas along its slow orbit, the orbit is intermittent, stopping for long periods of time. The different light positions change the nature of the canvas beneath. What is apparently a static painting becoming dynamic with the continual repositioning of light interacting with it.