Pacific Coast
Spotlight Artist
Gisela Colon
Pacific Coast
Artist Statement
The Glo-Pods are autonomous, independent, nonreferential
objects that hover between materiality and immateriality,
providing the viewer with varied perceptual experiences.
Transmitting, reflecting, refracting, and embodying light, they
activate the surrounding space and transform it. Because the
Glo-Pod forms are amorphous, asymmetrical, anthropomorphic,
and/or biomorphic, they appear to be artificially mutating,
morphing between solid, liquid, and gaseous states. My goal is to
bring about intriguing perceptual contradictions between visual/
sensory elements such as mass v. lightness, solidity v. delicacy,
opacity v. transparency, muscularity v. femininity, and intensity
v. nuance. Through a proprietary process of embedding light in
the objects, I create the appearance that the Glo-Pods have a life
of their own. Pulsating with energy, glowing with internal light,
they allow for exploration of the phenomenology of light, color,
materiality, and space as we experience it through the human
lens of the senses. In its most basic, reductive form, the work
explores conceptually the primeval link between man and light.
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