Elusive Fortune
Bateau des Reves
LIGHT PAINTINGS
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Conrad LIGHT PAINTINGS represent a unique art form, opening a fresh door to time-dimensional painting. Each piece explores an aspect of the interaction between form and kinetic color. Living with a light painting is like having another living thing in the house. It glows, it changes, it catches your attention in different ways at different times. There is nothing quite like it.
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I can be contacted at dchromacon(at)yahoo.com
Elusive Fortune
Bateau des Reves
Blue-Eyed Dragon
Meander
Stares
Mountain Laurel
Fado
Half Cross
Checker
Centaur
My light paintings are made with LED lamps, giving them durability that has never before existed for light-art. Most LEDs are rated with a life span of 100,000 hrs. At this rate a light painting operated for 20 hours a week could last 100 years. Because the lights are pulsed for dimming, each LED is on for only a fraction of the time the light painting is on, further extending its life. For the first time in history, art made with artificial light can represent a long-term artistic investment.
Notes from descriptions:
* iColor Cove lights are made by ColorKinetics (http://www.colorkinetics.com/ls/rgb/cove_ql/). The model I used is no longer sold. Each unit is one foot long with 45 LEDs (15 each of red, green, and blue) and a programmable chip to control its color sequence.
** The Quad-B circuit was designed by Peter Blasser. It is an analog automatic dimming circuit that can be configured to produce a range of fade-on/fade-off patterns. It is modified and built by the artist, providing a flexible range of kinetic color behaviors.
Five year Guarantee: These pieces, despite the incredible durability of LEDs, are subject to technological breakdown. If I am in the locality of a work that has failed, I will make repairs, charging only for damage that is not a result of the original design and materials. If the piece is not local, charges for travel or shipping may be required.
The purpose of the sale is to raise funds
for the digital chromaccord,
an important advance in chromatic art.
This sale may end when I feel I have
the funding I need.