The studio is a naked room, a janitor\u2019s closet, a dance hall in the morning, doors propped open with crates of empties that usher the lolling, acrid cloud of Murphy\u2019s Oil Soap into the bright yellow sideways sunlight.<\/span><\/p>\n I see Tami sitting prim, hands draped like empty gloves one on top of the other, ten bright red glossy acrylic nails dangling over the cliff of her knees.\u00a0 She is looking at me in silent listening like she has staked out this spot to wait for me all night.\u00a0 \u2018well,\u2019 she says, and then more of the looking.\u00a0 \u2018well,\u2019 again after a while, \u2018what do you want to create?\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cPhotons are the new paper\u201d<\/p>\n I am drawn to name photons fallen on a surface after having passed through a transparent medium, especially glass, most especially crystal. \u00a0What is the word for a shadow of light? \u00a0What happens besides<\/i>\u00a0photons?\u00a0 Would we not have a name for when they land, the arrangements that makes?<\/p>\n Natural transparency: water, crystals, gasses, dark matter?, eyeball lenses, silica, \u00a0photons unaffected or affected by plasma?\u00a0 The nature of the work has been re-focused, one thing to the next, light. \u00a0\u2018Oh\u2019 says central processing, looking up from its pages. You are looking at the light shadows of three optics, namely a candy dish, a cordial glass, and an Italian goblet, though I reserve the right later not to say, or to smash them and use their fragments for my optical purposes. \u00a0Muse asks a lot of me. \u00a0I think about the little jeweler’s hammer with three interchangeable heads, the egg shaped steel, the nylon dead blow, and the flat brass.<\/p>\n I thank the shadows, tall on the white wall, foreground and back, and double focused so that rows of leaves appear to be knit together on a common stem of light.\u00a0 Does no one ask what is going on about the shadows?\u00a0 About the apparent impossibility of them?\u00a0 You can\u2019t actually become a shadowstician without also being a lightologist.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Finally at the end of a long series of flaming hoops, deadlines, shows, no one is expecting any particular kind of art anywhere until June, no particular manifestation coloring the development of the work, the way an outside site does. \u00a0The optics, the open time…\u00a0 for one quick second I look into my mind for … Continue reading light studio<\/span> ![\"shadow](\"http:\/\/godshampoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/shadow-of-light.jpg\")
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