Raphaele Shirley
Arctic Lights, 2010
Arctic Lights, 2010
Five 50x33 inch C-Prints mounted on aluminum, each in an edition of 7 + 2 AP, signed and numbered on label (verso).
Arctic Lights documents Shirley's expedition to the Arctic Circle, October 2009. During her voyage, Shirley transposed the idea of the light sculpture - first used in Shooting Stair, 2009 - to the icy, nighttime Arctic waterscape using a makeshift "light brush" attached to a zodiac boat. While stationed on the expedition's vessel, Shirley used time-lapse photography to capture the movements of the light as it sculpted across the surface of the water, forming three-dimensional structures of cylinders, lines and prisms.