In his lecture he spoke about several project he had done and I am going to talk about some of the projects he showed us.
His first commission was a series of large illuminated 'Cones' on West Street, Brighton, using pure coloured translucent polyester resins, light and steel. The three cone shaped sculptures were made to celebrate Brighton and Hove city development of the city centre, while also complimenting the surrounding architecture and sea front setting.
This is something different that would brighten up the streets of Brighton, not something your likely to see anywhere else.
This was a project called 'Painting With Light' Raph did in 2013 in Cardiff, UK made from Acrylic, Wood, LEDs, Sensor Wiring, 2m Diameter x 120mm.
Painting With Light was designed to create a blocked pattern design which would change several colours on the touch of a hand. Upto three people a time are able to touch the blocks and they would change.
The colours are made from combining different levels of red, green and blue lights generated by multicoloured LED lights. Within the structure there are a number of small programmed computers that respond to the sensing information.
This was a project called 'Boxed Inside' for the 2013 Latitude Arts Festival. The work was imbedded into the ground at an angle, giving the artwork the effect that these boxes had just fallen from the sky.
Raph produced several 1.3m square wooden boxes that he laser cut 15mm holes into and LED flood lights inside that shine through different coloured jells lighting up the holes.
These boxes are aesthetically appealing and it's nice they are also giving out a meaningful message. They add something different to a festival that I've personally never seen before.
''I want people to look hard and find these meaningful and heartfelt words''
Light Waves is a 2D interactive light bored built in 2006 in London, England made from stainless steel, LED lighting, perspex 20m x 2m x 150mm.
It contains thousands of LED lights in a London walkway through interaction of light colour and movement. The computer software generates a sequence in response to movement of passers by.
When pedestrians trigger the motion sensors, pulses of light from both ends on the light-board follow them to the centre activating the central circular design. The aim of the light-board is to generate a positive and popular walkway.
This idea is something that I feel would create a positive feeling as it's something interesting to see when walking through the streets of london. Something different and clever that passers by will appreciate, offering them opportunity to experience a piece of artwork.
The lecture we attended was interesting to see just what different projects Raphael took part in and the effort it took to produce the final pieces. It's something different from what we're used to seeing in the lectures, not just pictures that would be up in a gallery, but actual artwork out and about in several locations that anybody could go and view themselves.
After the lecture I was also asked to photograph him and got some nice portrait shots that I'm very pleased with and then used in my assignment. (Three images below)
