It is difficult to sculpt light in the air, but the work of artist Sally Weber uses holography and computer graphics to do just that.
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Installations
Light has no substance, no defined form, no weight, no mass, no boundaries, but completely envelops us. As an artistic medium it offers no limitations except those set by the technologies employed. Each installation explores light as an immersive sculptural experience through optical holography, photography, video, lasers or sunlight.
Public Art
Light touches us directly whether in the form of a sunny day or the brilliance of color. It creeps in and catch us off guard. Public art offers a new vision of a place and the opportunity to experience it freshly, perhaps like turning a corner to a new vista.
Holography
In the early 1980's while attending MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Weber became fascinated with the dimensional quality of laser light. "It seemed to hang in space sparkling in the truest red I'd ever seen," said Weber. "I wanted to work with light, its effect on architectural space, and the internal resonance we feel for color as the essential nature of light itself." (This Side Up magazine, Netherlands, 10/2/2000)
Works on Paper
In my digital photographs I play with bending time and space as well as light. These works on paper offer a respite for the holographer from the complexity of the laboratory, allowing for a spontaneity of exploration by more direct means.