Visit to london - Tate Britain

During the weekend I visited london and went to the Tate britain museum.

I was interested to find out that at the end of JMW Turner career he became fascinated with light through Goethe's theory of light. While there there was an experiment, the light would shine onto the arm and below two shadows would appear, one blue and the other a natural shadow colour, i found this interesting and may incorporate this into my design.

Goethe observed that shadows might be coloured, even though they could be thought of an abscence of light.

The next experiment, showed a box, to which you then would see a grey disc, turn the light on and you had to stare at it for 10 seconds and then turn the light off, then had to keep looking at the box, after a while the grey disc would become coloured, each time you would close your eyes it would also change from grey to red.

There was also a chandelier which seemed interesting, at certain points the lights would turn on and others turn off, this was related to morse code.

JMW Turner's experiment with light

Susan Hiller below, seemed interesting to look at, her main image was this light image, and hidden behind it was the image of a man, i felt i could work with this and do a similar technique, it almost creates a spooky/ghostly look, possibly could be used to remembering someone.