All the places the light has been, All the light that can be seen
Mihir K.
Paper
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Paper is the soul of origami. The choice of paper is one of the most intentional design decisions. I chose origami paper with patterns that play with light traveling through space and made folds that highlight convexity and concavity, which are both central to the idea of light emanating, traveling, illuminating and bouncing back. The pieces Convexity and Concavity are modular polyhedral tessellations playing on the nature of lenses and light. My submission is inspired by my interests in physics and photography. Stargazing in my backyard, I was struck by starlight. There are around 9000 visible stars in the sky. While these visible stars produce trillions of megawatts of light, an infinitesimally small fraction of it reaches the Earth, and the light from these stars makes up 0.0000002% of the total starlight reaching the Earth. All that we see on Earth is made possible by light, and it struck me that while there is so much light out there, so little of it reaches us. We use an even smaller fraction of it to perceive our world. Light is part of the electro-magnetic spectrum and carries information, both in the visual sense and digital senses. While there is so much light, there isn’t as much understanding. These starlight themed pieces illustrate the folded nature of space and time as light travels through them, bringing slices, edges, and folds of our universe into focus for one fractionally infinitesimal slice of time, illuminating what we see and understand in that instant.
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I enjoy creating artwork that gives me a new perspective on things. Oftentimes, this new perspective comes from combining familiar things in new, thematic contexts. I am fascinated by shapes, light and shadows, and I find beauty in their ability to transform themselves, illuminating ideas.
