inFLUX

Thirty ultra-violet lasers pendulums, flexible wire, motor system, sand and pigment.

inFLUX, Sally Weber/Resonance Studio, Installation

Currents New Media, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM, June 18-27, 2021

The site-specific work was first presented in Elemental, a solo exhibition in 2016 at Women and Their Work, Austin, TX 2016

Evoking our most elemental vibration, thirty laser pendulums move in erratic trajectories across arcs of white sand. The light installation visualizes the ceaseless motion at our core that binds our body and all matter together.

— Sally Weber, on her artwork “inFLUX”

Everything vibrates on the elemental level. This is the dance of inFLUX. At our core, the particles that construct the most fundamental elements bind our body and all matter together. Emotionally, bonds between us hold us together as well. The support of others, those interconnections, are a larger expression of the infinitesimal within.

Thirty UV lasers at the ends of ten-foot-long flexible pendulums draw erratic trajectories on white sand laid beneath them on the floor. The violet light from the lasers leaves colored traces of their paths across the sand. Over time, past lines fade and are redrawn building up a matrix of patterns in the sand. The dense patterns in the sand become apparent and suggest nebula glowing through clouds of gas.

Photos and videos: Resonance Studio

PRESS:

Hashe, Janis, Stop, Look and Connect, East Bay Express, pp.6-8, Nov.11, 2020