Comfort Light Gallery

 

  

Top half of the 4-foot Temporal Ribbon #1 under construction. Red, green, and blue LEDs look bright white -- till you look away and 'see' the ribbon of colors. TR#1 is on display at The Margaret Smith Gallery in Bethesda, Maryland. (Click on the picture for a larger view.)

 

  

Cameras can't really capture the afterimage effect of the Temporal Ribbon light sculptures. But this shot kind of shows the effect.

 

  

This is the ribbon of color, as best as the camera can capture it, from Temporal Ribbon #2.

 

  

TriChrome #1, a work in progress, in which three 1- inch thick triangles are independently changing color in non- repeating ways. (Similar to the "Pi" series, below.)

 

  

Buddha levitates in crystal, lit from below with red, green, and blue LEDs. Turns on automatically when the ambient light level drops at night.

 

  

This is Tooti Fruiti. Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are embedded in 9-mm thick acrylic sheets (ten of them) which turn ON sequentially as the sun sets. Tooti Fruiti is part of the Light Chime series of the Accent Night Light displays. 62" long by 44" high. Click on the picture for a larger image.

 

  

Light from the LEDs in the 10 parts of Tooti Fruiti is internally reflected and then scattered at the edges in ways that look like neon tubes. During the day the LEDs are OFF, but as night comes on all 10 pieces light up. (Each lighting element comes on independently as the sun sets - or as wind blows or according to any desired environmental variable.)

 

  

Close-up showing light reflected by the acrylic pieces of Tooti Fruiti.

 

  

Light Fan #4 is being used as an outdoor porch light; it turns on as the sun sets, with green coming on first, then blue and finally red. 14" high by 14" wide.

 

  

Light Fan #3 is a living room night light. The yellow comes from green and red; all the colors in these light sculptures derive from red, green and blue only. 16" high by 19" wide.

 

  

Red, green and blue LEDs in the base of Full Color (shown in front of a mantle mirror) conveys light to the cut edges which scatter it, looking like neon tubes. Each color (red, green, blue) is controlled by a separate analog circuit that cycles the color slowly ON and then slowly OFF in a two-minute cycle that produces a net effect of endlessly non-repeating tours through the realm of all colors. Four models built; they are precursors to the Pi series. Comes on automatically at night. 30" high.

 

  

Pi #7 is a 50-inch high acrylic column on a walnut base with a brass support. LEDs beneath the column project colors into the column in an endlessly non-repeating sequence of all colors. Ten versions of Pi have been built so far.

 

  

This is the walnut base of Pi #7, showing the brass support structure. The Pi series is so-named because, like the digits of pi, of the color sequences never repeat.

 

  

Three views of Pi #4 which includes controls that allow automatic or manual color control. In auto mode, the color sequence never repeats. In manual mode, you can dial in any color or intensity as a steady light. (You can light up a room in tones to suit your mood.) The unit turns on automatically around sunset or on cloudy days. 50" high.

 

  

Pi #9 is 52 inches high and, as with all Pi-series units, it cycles non- repeatingly through all colors.

 

  

Pi #9 is shown here in a darker setting than above.

 

  

This basic night light comes on as the sun sets, shining green first, then aqua and finally white. 10" high.

 

  

Temporal Ribbon, study #1 is the size of a bar of soap. Its colors can be adjusted to suit the desired mood in a room.

 

  

Temporal Ribbon, study #2 is a copper top outdoor walkway light. It looks white - until you move your eye away from it, or past it, provoking a visual reflex that pulls your eye back to the main light.

 

Bob

Dennis

Last Updated: January, 24, 2004, 1235 hrs EST