As It Is Cracking
As It Is Cracking is an interactive light and video installation of the wall that cracks in real time. As the wall cracks, lights and video appear through the cracks to simulate the change of daylight that is happening in the outside. The slowly changing light changes from being frightful to pleasurable. Daunting cracking of the wall in real time happens over the course of eight hours. Light and moving images appearing through the cracks simulate serene change of daylight. This change is interrupted by sudden and startling appearance of the lightning and more intense cracking of the wall that is triggered when a person enters the room. Through transformative spatial experience of the cracking wall, the goal is to create new opportunities for accessing the multiplicity of experiencing the sublime, the dichotomy between bliss and horror, beauty and ugliness, pleasure and pain, comfort and torment, divine and hell as distinct instances of the single sublime that can be experienced through integration of cognitive and sensory ability. This is attempted by means of experimentation with both technology and traditional materials. The approach for facilitating new interpretations and incarnations of the sublime combines principles of architecture, lighting design, and video system.
As the circle of light increases, so does the circumference of darkness around it.
Albert Einstein
Even a room which must be dark needs at least a crack of light to know how dark it is.
Louis Khan
Following are the screens shots of the wall cracking over the course of eight hours.
Below is a simulation of dusk appearing through the cracks.
Simulation of the daylight ranges from blissful environment to eerie atmosphere in the moments of lightning.
