I’m Theo Lundblade, an artist from San Diego. I have tried various forms of light art in my artistic endeavors. I find that the art I enjoy creating the most is based on natural phenomena, and instead of controlling it, I’m documenting or working with it. I first developed this mentality towards art when I began glass blowing. Glass blowing is a technical “hard” art, by which I mean that glass blowing has hard rules that you can not break because it’s the physical nature of the glass. Blowing glass is about balancing the temperature and viscosity of the glass. It becomes a flow state where you have to be tuned into the glass and nothing else, because each moment the glass behaves differently.
I have also explored photography. Which is a wonderful experience for looking at the world. It gave me a much better understanding of light. Photography is about manipulating light, it’s about making a mechanical eye see exactly the way you imagine. Controlling its sensitivity to light, the dilation of its “pupil”, how fast it “blinks”, etc. At its best, photography lets you see the world in a new way or a way you never could have, freezing a moment in time, showing the lingering afterimage of where something was, etc.
Most recently, I’ve been diving into 3D printing and have found a new light-based art in that exploration. 3D printed lampshades! If the plastic is kept thin enough, light passes through with incredible warmth and saturation.
