render room

What does it mean to render and to be rendered? What does it mean to be literally painted in a certain light? What does it mean to leave traces of your identity behind? In Drawing with Light, I experiment with interactive light projection. In a small, dark artistic laboratory, light traces over the contours of people passing through. Those being traced over cannot see the tracings fully – they are only visible to others in the room. A focal theme of the project has become attempting to capture the ever-moving. People and their identities are never stagnant: they are always in flux. Attempting to understand or represent them is thus a complex task. From moments fleeting past, to the versions of self represented, to the light itself dancing across moving faces – everything is impermanent. Often, all that remains are traces - and those too may cease to exist.