Sunday, November 2, 2014

Infinity


The Infinity Room, an art installation designed by Doug Wheeler, is "like walking into a cloud of milk." The space is focused on physical space and how humans interact within it, using a full-day cycle of light (annotated to a short 32 minutes) to highlight the experience. Wheeler is able to control the light by composing the room to be devoid of corners.
The author of the piece, Tyler Green, went to the exhibit to experience it for himself. He said he entered the space when it was in the 'mid morning' sensation of light, it was composed of pinks and purples, but once he looked away he could see black spots due to the bright light. Then the space became so bright that his eyes began to play tricks on him, and soon he was squinting to the point of tears. By the end of his experience, Green wrote “One of the greatest experiences ever. Feel privileged to have been in it.”
Personally, I feel as though I would really dislike this installation. Maybe it's because I'm from Seattle and I am used to gloomy, grey, and cloudy surroundings. Such intense bright lights would not be something I would want to sign up for, especially since I have to live with the awful "prison lights" inside of Kirwan Tower, which I complain relentlessly about.
This space teaches me that although I personally prefer softer lighting, others can find an array of bright to soft lighting to be exceptionally helpful to their daily lives. Natural light has the ability to control how our bodies function and without it we suffer greatly.

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