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Curious Conditions is an artistic lighting design practice comprised of Mark Stater and Jessica Doyle. The mission of their practice is to explore and experiment with the physical and nonphysical qualities of light, and to share those explorations with the public by means of immersive, participatory installations. By exposing the subtle and wonderous complexities of light, they hope to incite a reimagination of how light can shape our environments and experiences.
Artist Statement: Forms of light and body forms. X-Ray Forms engages with both of these ideas to explore how a form of light can reveal our bodies' forms in multiple ways. Our biological insides can only be seen through an x-ray at a doctor's office. Our exterior selves can be seen all the time and in a large variety of ways. X-Ray Forms takes the light source that gives us the ability to see an x-ray and and reimagines its purpose in order to grant it the ability to project our forms in a completely different way.
X-Ray Forms provides a real life participatory environment to experience our forms in a new and dynamic way. Making use of discarded medical equipment placed inside wooden pallets, the viewer has the ability to interact with the light and see their own projections along the walls and ceiling. The interplay of of light and shadow mimics that of a medical x-ray. Our intention is to help the viewer to become the subject, allowing for a closer relationship to the form they project.
About the Green Box. The "green box" was discovered to be a 1940's vintage mobile military office. After its military usage, it was discarded in Olympia, Washington. Garden city resident, Carol B., a long haul truck driver, adopted it and transported it on a trailer to a location behind her home to be used as a garden shed and storage unit for many years. Instead of its life ending in demolition, the "green box" was rediscovered in February 2018 and granted a new life in it current location.
Artist Statement: Forms of light and body forms. X-Ray Forms engages with both of these ideas to explore how a form of light can reveal our bodies' forms in multiple ways. Our biological insides can only be seen through an x-ray at a doctor's office. Our exterior selves can be seen all the time and in a large variety of ways. X-Ray Forms takes the light source that gives us the ability to see an x-ray and and reimagines its purpose in order to grant it the ability to project our forms in a completely different way.
X-Ray Forms provides a real life participatory environment to experience our forms in a new and dynamic way. Making use of discarded medical equipment placed inside wooden pallets, the viewer has the ability to interact with the light and see their own projections along the walls and ceiling. The interplay of of light and shadow mimics that of a medical x-ray. Our intention is to help the viewer to become the subject, allowing for a closer relationship to the form they project.
About the Green Box. The "green box" was discovered to be a 1940's vintage mobile military office. After its military usage, it was discarded in Olympia, Washington. Garden city resident, Carol B., a long haul truck driver, adopted it and transported it on a trailer to a location behind her home to be used as a garden shed and storage unit for many years. Instead of its life ending in demolition, the "green box" was rediscovered in February 2018 and granted a new life in it current location.
- Copyright
- (C) 2019 Gregg Mizuta
- Image Size
- 5426x3617 / 9.9MB
- Gregg Mizuta
- Contained in galleries
- Curious Conditions: Mark Stater / Jessica Doyle

