My project concept centers around passing light from a single light source through panes of colored glass (or Plexiglass?) resulting in an image being “projected” onto a flat surface behind the panes. I took inspiration from both my research on Stephen Knapp (front of library art guy), stained glass windows:
and also from this work that I found by an artist named Rashad Alakbarov:
This work uses acrylic airplanes arranged such that the light behind them creates the image on the wall of a bay scene. Before I saw this work, I knew that I wanted to work with colored glass to create a colored image but I didn’t know how to execute.
My plan is to use panes of colored glass either positioned or hung such that they create an image of either a cityscape or Bob Ross-type landscape scene:
I believe that the panes themselves would be interesting to look at, and the resultant light painting would add another dynamic that would make the entire piece very cool.
Here is a schematic depicting an initial concept:
