2018-2020
Kinetic light installation series
Vertical window blinds, motorized kinetic system, LED flood lighting, projection mapping, radio and TV receivers, computer
Dimensions variable
Exhibited: New Media Gallery, Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle (February 9 – March 30, 2018); Space:Light, The Plaxall Gallery, New York (October 17 – November 17, 2019)
Blind Film is a series of installations that turn familiar architectural objects into unstable sites of perception. The work begins from a fleeting observation: a stripe of light slipping through a window blind. This small moment of discontinuity, fragile and easily overlooked, becomes a way to explore how absence, rupture, and distance leave perceptual traces that persist in the body and in memory.
Vertical blinds are rebuilt as kinetic systems, each concealing an LED light. Radio and television signals received in real time trigger motors that tap the blinds, so that light flashes through the slats in the rhythm of incoming broadcasts. Stripes of light leak across the darkened gallery and cross a projected T-shaped line that divides the space. Its vertical axis separates two corner installations, while its horizontal line marks the viewer’s position, recalling the geometry of a tennis court.
Light here is less an image than a material that structures perception. What a viewer sees depends on where they stand in relation to the line, the blinds, and the rhythm of the signals, so that seeing becomes spatial, tactile, and temporal. The familiar window blind becomes a field of shifting presence, where light both divides and connects.
blind film 
blind film - prototype
