Fading Shadows are experiments with the perception and relationship of shadow and light. It involves modifying shadows cast by physical objects as well as projected images, and either concealing or otherwise altering them by painting. The viewer’s physical presence acts together with the masked shadows, causing an unanticipated and perplexing shift in them. They seem to be suspended somewhere in between the background and the viewer’s own shadow, while shadows that were painted remain imperceptible and become visible again only by the viewer’s intervention. Despite the baffling effect, it is carried out by using ordinary paint, light and shadow and is based on basic phenomena of colour and light.
Images of a model for piercing shadows, AiR Sandnes, Norway, 2016
The wall looks blank where shadows are masked. They turn visible when converged with the viewer’s shadow (below).
