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Query 5
Toronto, ON
“White Out” TODO Festival
2014
13’6″W X 10′-0″H
Hand-dyed fabric, wood structure
Dominique Cheng, Kristina Ljubanovic
Do not Bodies and Light act mutually upon one another; that is to say, Bodies upon Light in emitting, reflecting, refracting and inflecting it, and Light upon Bodies for heating them, and putting their parts into a vibrating motion?
(from Isaac Newton’s Opticks (1704), Query 5)
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Query 5
Toronto, ON
“White Out” TODO Festival
2014
13’6″W X 10′-0″H
Hand-dyed fabric, wood structure
Dominique Cheng, Kristina Ljubanovic
Do not Bodies and Light act mutually upon one another; that is to say, Bodies upon Light in emitting, reflecting, refracting and inflecting it, and Light upon Bodies for heating them, and putting their parts into a vibrating motion?
(from Isaac Newton’s Opticks (1704), Query 5)
White is not a colour. It’s a combination of all light frequencies, playing on your rods and cones, see. Your brain, on the receiving end of those rays, perceives white. When something appears coloured, it’s because the object has absorbed some frequencies of light and reflected others. The rays that bounce back onto our eyeballs define the colours we see. A crystal is a machine for revealing white’s constituent colour frequencies. Similarly, this analog device, which operates like an oversized lenticular, is white when viewed one way. But as your body—and your eye—moves around it, another condition is revealed.
