UPDATE: Luminescence V has been postponed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Kathryn Wadel couldn’t be more thrilled about being sent to the basement.
The dark quarters in the lower confines of Deer Lake Gallery are the perfect place for Wadel to show her new installation, Frequent-Sees.
The work, originally created as an outdoor installation for the Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival, is “a piece about exploring light, landscape and our visual understanding of the world,” as Wadel puts it. It’s been adapted to project on two walls of the basement room.
“Because it’s a projection, I can sort of manipulate it to operate in different spaces,” she said.
She began the piece by walking in the Still Creek area, capturing the landscape on video – the play of light through the trees, the ripples on the water; all the details that might be missed in a casual walk through the area.
She takes the familiar B.C. scenery – the forest, the rivers – and transforms it into an abstracted work using video editing software, playing with ideas of light and how we interact with the physical space around us.
She enjoys leaving space for her audience to find their own ways to approach the work – whether that means standing back and watching, or walking in front of the projector to cast their own shadow into the image.
“I love leaving it open to how viewers want to interact with my work,” she said.
See more about her work at www.kathrynwadel.com.
