RED OF THE DRY FALLS

Red of the Dry Falls is a dynamic light art box that portrays landscape of the Dry Falls, scalloped precipice in central Washington. The piece is made using the acrylic box, photography and algorithmically programmed lighting behind the backlit image. Together these materials are combined to depict both the beauty and catastrophe of what was once the enormous ice-dam that collapsed into the largest waterfall known to have existed on earth.

The rain had stopped, but one could hear the drops falling from leaf to leaf like tiny, independent worlds that had arrived out of the dark heights, and now, after their brief earthly existence, rolled, one after another, from leaf to leaf, from bough to bough, into the ditches, the mud, the Blitva River which, swollen, rustled under the bridge, dark and mucky, like the threat of an oncoming storm.

Miroslav Krleza, The Banquet in Blitva, 1939

Materials: Custom dynamic LED Lights, plexiglass, giclee print
Software: Maja Petric
Exhibited: The Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media, Seattle, WA, USA
Year: 2013