Bon Fire

Here are some of the best shots from my interactive performance thig-a-ma-gig I did for Off The Edge.

A big thanks to Paul Boshears and Lauri Stallings for the opportunity, and to the guys and gals from Back On My Feet for their assistance.

I'll post more when the fire has extinguished...

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In the beginning

Getting things going, a little interaction

Pretty much going full steam ahead

Everyone is gone, but the fire blazes on...

A Milky Way

Images of a new work for Work In White, a show I will be in at CherryLion Studios in Atlanta, on January 28.
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A Milky Way Mixed media, © Casey Lynch (2012)

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Detail shot of A Milky Way ©Casey Lynch (2012)

Glow stick shipment arrived!

I just got my shipment of glow sticks for my participatory piece for Off The Edge in Atlanta's Woodruff Park. As always, a few cracked in transit, so here is a small "fire" made from them.  The official work will be called "Bon Fire," and will have a small group of people creating an artificial bon fire from orange, yellow, and red glow sticks.  There will be a circle of about 5000 glow sticks activated during the event. I'm hoping to also have some audience participation...

More Glow experiments

Not Yet Titled (2011)

Living Room （2011）

Here are a few photos of more work with the glow sticks.  I'm figuring out how to photograph them a little better, the lighting is tricky though, and not fully accurate to real life.  The pic below is closer to what it is really like.

New "Sculpture"

Here is another piece I've been working on - it was really nice to see something go from Sketch-Up, to hand-drawn, back to sketch-up, then into Photoshop.  Hopefully it will go into the real world some day soon.  (If you have a couple hundred and a big yard, hit me up. wink wink ;-)  I want to paint the inside with glow paint, then let it do its thing, but if I ever get to build it and the glow isn't strong enough, I'm gonna do car neon and solar panels. (actually i think the neon and solar panel would be less expensive)  This image has it situated on the median of my hometown's Broadway.

More fun in the studio I wanted to share. It is a gif, so you need to click on it to see the animation

More Studio Play - Make It Glow On 'Em

You may have noticed that in my ongoing investigation of artificial light I have developed a relationship with the old 'outer glow' Photoshop effect.  It's just so...
Anyways, stemming from that practice, I have begun to experiment with glow sticks, as they exist IRL, yet possess that outer glow associated with fluorescence. They are quite the ball of metaphor when you think about light as an analogy for truth. They are human engineered, user activated, temporary, come in many colors; the list can go on.
These are some very basic, preliminary sketches.  Eventually, I want to actually make some 'permanent' versions to be shown in a gallery or show; maybe some '2-D' and some '3-D'.  They would be designed beforehand, activated and constructed the day of the show (glued together on panels I suppose), then left to fade away over the course of the show, leaving only the lifeless mass as artifact.
Besides a metaphor for truth or enlightenment, I also sort of see this as a commentary on the popularization of ephemeral art like performance and relational aesthetics versus the imperative for salable goods in the gallery.

For the most part, these are not Photoshopped, i.e., no special filters or effects have been used to alter the images, just a little cropping and minimal color correction.
The first five were taken in total darkness.  All are arranged on white illustration board, 20"x30".

The one below was taken in dim lighting.

The one below was taken the next day, in full light, after the chemical reaction that causes the glow had run its course.