CityLights

From Rhizome Artbase
Joao Santos
2007
Description

CityLights started in the beginning of 2006. It primarily deals with successive random night shots that were later reworked in order to reenact their original meaning. The main body of this exquisite artwork has greatly evolved from a basic folder into a group set which comprises more than 600 high resolution digital photos. The traces of light and its colors draw the central composition of the whole work. As in the music of Brian Eno "Ambient Music", CityLights aims to create new landscapes to be interacted by everyone's impressions. It also surpasses the cliche of random shots, as the intricate groups of different sets reveal a storytelling: the recreation of lights shapes and colors. CityLights is a complex high resolution digital artwork with hundreds of images that can be applied in many different projects. Ideally it would be printed on large formats and displayed in public places (stations, public passages, parks, big white walls, site-specific installations). Upon visualizing these striking visual compositions one can wonder about the ubiquitous effect of lights and colors, and the birth of new dimensions in a reeling motion emotion.

Joao Santos
13 July 2007
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