Neon Dance

This series of work is a collaboration with choreographer, dancer David Olge and myself to create a site specific artwork. Ogle was invited to respond and react intuitively to the University of Ulster Art Gallery's dimensions, performing a series of spontaneous and elegant, gestural movements, while holding a set of lights. I then captured these movements using a long-exposure photography. The resulting images of distorted, staccato beams of light were then poetically translated into a unique, site specific neon installation. The movement of the camera allows for accidental drawing of lines of light. This playfulness adds to my process, enriching the final photographic drawing which I deconstruct and visualise in three dimensional neon forms