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Science
meets Art
meets Spirituality


Making the invisible visible






--- playing with light --- One of my main interests is to see how light can play with objects and how we can play with light itself.

Waves 2023

String illuminated by lights



Flow of Life 2021


3D printed object illuminated by light
Waves

When we put water in an Tibetan bowl and strike we will not only hear the sound but corresponding waves will appear in the water. Here I use stroboscopic light (tuned to the frequency of the bowl) to highlight the patterns. Notice not only the waves on the surface of the water but also the wave pattern of the coast line: interference of the waves and the sand created this surprisingly regular pattern.
Waves. Air and water are natural media for waves to travel in, in essence through transmission of movement, the movement of matter. The patterns that emerge are often pleasing to our senses. 






When you have an eye for it the number of patterns you can discern are endless...

Fountain in Zurich, Switzerland
Light
 

Roof of a church tower in Wales. This is how beautiful the light was; the colours of this image (and all other images on this site for that matter) are un-edited. How did they figure out how to create this magnificent lighting? Everybody can see an aura around his or her head: simply look carefully at the grass with the sun in your back.


There are so many things we can be inpired with...


This demonstration project shows how to make the invisible (in this case the magnetic field) visible:
it is an ‘off the shelve’ lamp in which a sensor and a microcontroller are added.

The lamp reacts to the movements of the trains; the colour of the light will change when they pass or leave.

Reflections

These cars are not parked in front of a few houses; the are parked in front of a huge building with reflecting windows. The reflection makes the characterlessness of the building less poignant. This pattern of the reflection of the sun can be mapped to the coloured pattern of the bowl. It looks like the surface of the blue paint is recessed a little bit resulting in a focussing of the sunlight on the table. I whished I was the creator of the gray & black pattern on the hull of the ship. To reflect, to see things in another light, to be fooled by a reflection, these are the things that will keep our observations sharp.
To reflect, to see things in an other light, to be fooled by a reflection, these are the things that gives depth to our view.
Shapes
Pure geometric and random shapes, sometimes mixed.

Starting with chaos and building order on top of it. Like life evolved out of matter, and consciousness out of life.
Olaf Schraa
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands