Red Wolf
I had an opportunity. to work with a holographer, Tom Liguori, creating very large DCG holograms a few years ago. This experience changed dramatically my thinking about making an image as a painter. True holography is the read out of the wave front capture of light. DCG holograms are the analog creation of nano particle arrays on a glass surface that create the most extensive display of the physics of light that I know of. Realizing, actually trying to understand, what all is at play in being able to view an image created via all these diffractive structural color producing elements inherent in holography has become a guide post for me. My friend Tom died during the covid years and I don't have access to the equipment to produce the large holograms Tom had worked to developed the ability to make. I have taken a step back and started looking for how I might bring together elements of diffractive principles to mimic much of what is going on in these real holograms. Fundamental to my work right now is a quest to build the “painted" image via many elements of diffractive optical producing materials and processes. Where my output is a recognizable painting on the wall I strive to display color beyond what is achievable through pigment alone and a perception of depth that is uniquely deep for a painted work. Im on a thing right now where you can actually put your hand through a beam of light appearing to come off the picture plane at about two feet into the room. its not ready for me to display as art just yet, work in in progress so to speak. It's the pursuit of the underlying physics of light that drives my work and keep me excited. This is a relatively unexplored direction in painting that has only in our lifetime begun to become available to us to create with.