Light Divides the Square

This work follows in the tradition of experimental cinema and abstract animation. It features "rippling caustics," or refracted light patterns, cast by a virtual fluid body created in a 3D animation program. To create the light compositions I used the organizing forces of a square format for the fluid body and invisible shape-shifting objects to perturb the fluid surface and initiate the ripples. The images in this animation are not achievable in reality. For me, what is significant is the twist of using "high technology" to simulate the use of lower forms of technology in creating abstractions - in this case, capturing light refractions created by fluid and light. My overriding intent is to create beautiful light patterns with a dark undertow of shadows.