The thesis paper

The paper is the only thing that i have left now besides installing my piece in the gallery. I feel that my project has completely changed and that i almost need to rewrite my whole dam paper. However, I feel that my project hasnt varied from the core concepts of my piece. If anything i have investigated and involved even more concepts now. I guess I just dont know if my painting and paper still reflect each other....

Panels are finished.

The panels are done being painted and the enamel has been applied to the backs of them. I think this is pretty much how i want the composition to be. If i keep it this way, the piece will be 6ft in height, 4 ft 3in at the widest point and extend 7 inches off the wall at its thickest part. There are 2 layers of panels, the layers will be seperated by 2 in dowel to help create an interesting sense of depth.

Step 3 of light boxes

The last step was to do all the proper wiring for the light boxes. The light boxes are actually ceiling light fixtures and are meant to be hard wired to a power source. Due to this fact, I had to add proper wire and a plug so they will work in the gallery

Step 2 of the light boxes

The second step was adhering the tiles. What I did was made them very condensed at one end and dispersed at the other end. The light boxes then sat for 24 hours and cured.

Step 1 of light boxes

The first step of the lightboxes was to create a composition for the glass tiles on the light boxes. I wanted to make sure it was exactly what i wanted before i permanently adhered them to the light box. What i did was taped off 14.5 inch square on a table in my studio and used that as a template to arrange the tiles.

Camera is up and working again

So... my camera is finally functioning again and im now uploading pics of the progress of my thesis project....

The idea for this project is overlaying foam panels that are backlit by lightboxes. I ran into a few problems with this project so far and still have few problems left to work out. I first encountered the problem of what to do with the foam panels. I originally planned on doing all the panels bright, vibrant colors. However, I thought a nice white/irredescent white stripe would make an interested background. But, once I completed the stripes I really liked how miminalist it turned out and the simplist beauty of the directions the stripes went. I also thought it would compliment the light boxes well. This posed a huge debate bc my whole thesis paper was about color theory mostly and now I basically removed all color from the piece. To slightly resolved this problem by adding color to my light boxes by means of glass mosaic tiles. The tiles are condensed at one end and dispersed at the other end. I had a few other minor problems but none of them are worth talking about. SO the only problem left is figuring out how to mount all of these panels on the wall in the gallery. They have to be mounted about 4-5 inches off the wall in order for them to be infront of the lightboxes and still leaving enough room for any heat produced by the light boxes to be able to escape and not melt the foam panels. So far the only way i came up with to mount them is joining to L brackets together to form a U bracket. However, I am concerned that because of the size bracket i will have to use, the weight of the bracket will be too much that it will rip when mounted to the foam. Any suggestions of other ways i can mount the foam panels?