I’ll start my maquette by saying that I unfortunately do not have one. While starting to work on my maquette and look into a shopping list of supplies I might need to create my window idea I began to become a little disinterested in my ideas and began thinking to another light artest I had seen. I kept thinking about Liu Dao’s work and couldn’t get it out of my head.
So I came up with another idea. I wanted to create my own version of this art. I wanted to combine what I had seen from other people who had bought old art from places like goodwill and painted their own additions onto it, but instead do it with light art. I brainstormed a few ideas using art I had found on Facebook Marketplace in combination with LED Matrices and LCD Screens from Adafruit and came up with a few ideas. However, before I make any purchases I plan to visit Goodwill and Savers early this week to see if I can find any particularly inspiring works of art there.
Above are two Facebook Marketplace finds that gave me a few starting ideas. For the piece on the left I thought about putting an LED Matrix behind the sky to allow it to change colors to a sunset, or maybe have a sun with clouds floating by. Additionally, on the deck of the boat using an LCD display to show a person waving on the deck of the sail boat. For the piece on the right I thought about placing flickering LEDs in each of the lights and windows as well as a person drinking enjoying a cup of coffee. To add an additional level of interactivity I was thinking about potentially making the sky change colors based on the time or the ambient lighting around the art. Also I could potentially use a distance or motion sensor to have the people in the painting stop what they’re doing and wave when someone gets close.
Below are a list of parts I might use based on the piece of art that I find that inspires me the most:
I like the idea of re-purposing a found work of art. But you might find it simpler to create your own, or at least print your own. If you find a design you like you could get it printed on a canvas or canvas board. Depending on how translucent the canvas turns out to be, you might want to replace some areas (windows?) with a thinner material that can more easily pass the light in the way you want.
I think that your new idea is very interesting, I wonder if it would be better to create your own artwork to do this with so that you can control more easily where the lights will be able to go.
I like how this idea is along similar lines to the one you had before, so you can build on what you already were thinking about. I agree, it may be difficult to find a piece of work that can be modified to bring in light, but it is definitely worth trying this week!
Hope you find an artwork that you like! Manipulating a pre-existing artwork sounds like a great challenge.