SCINTILLA LUX (2013)
Neon | 200 x 200 x 5cm | Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery | Collection of the University of Western Australia | Photo: the artist

Commissioned for the Perth International Arts Festival Exhibition Luminous Flux the wall piece Scintilla Lux simultaneously embodies the minute and the immensity of light as a dimension in space and experience in time. In this configuration, harnessed energy by the use of captured gases inside glass tubes represent the principal medium utilised to shape visual and sensory environments. A scintilla represents a brief moment in time when light is reflected on a surface, a flash, a flicker, a glimmer, becoming momentarily available to the naked eye. The manipulation of light allows the artist to suspend and pause the present, thus allowing the viewer to be temporarily transported and allowed to witness an experience of space where the concept of time is almost obsolete.