N-SynconArt: Open Windows Exhibition

Where the 'Street is the Gallery'!

Each year artists are invited to submit one piece of art works to be displayed in windows throughout the main street of Stromness from the Pier Head to the Museum.

This year the exhibition is to coincide with the Orkney Science Festival which is celebrating the International Year of the Light so the theme for the exhibition is 'LIGHT'

Light is a vast subject in which to take inspiration from and through my research I have looked from the stars and their galaxies to photons(particles of light) and how light behaves.

I`ve also read Albert Einstein`s Theory of General Relativity and it`s `space-time` to James Clerk Maxwell's Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field and electromagnetic radiation(I perhaps should say I looked over rather than read thoroughly or I`d still be reading!)

Both theories were fascinating, if some what bewildering but it`s through these two scientists theories that I finally submitted the piece that I did. I felt they related to and I could identify them with the art and ideas I`m currently working on which includes- time and maths!

And here it is..............................................................................

Essence of Life

. The concept behind the artworks was to use the line as a connection between time and space as light moves through day and night, the sun and moon, a natural clock is part of our daily lives and impossible to live without. I also see the line and its shadow as a representation of life and memories, the layers of light and shadow as echos of our existence, perhaps the essence of life.Time is in constant movement so the image is a captured moment of this and I choose photography as a medium rather than the original piece as another link to the theme of light; the word `photography` means `drawing with light` .

`Open Windows` begins on the Saturday 29th August and runs to Sunday 6th September and with 50 participating artists it should be an excellent exhibition!!