barbara jansen - BADA

discussion
Expressions – future
Among all possible expressions, personal interest has led me to look into organic
expressions. Over 200 sounds of water and wind have been recorded
as a starting point for transferring rhythms and movements based on natural
phenomena into lighting sequences. Nevertheless, on the way toward finding
this kind of expressions one often finds contrary expressions instead, as can
be seen in colour flow and rhythm exercise.
In the future, I will continue my work by exploring, with nature as a
source of inspiration, how to re-awaken organic and captivating appearances
that unfold over time. With this kind of cross-modality in my work I will bring
together tactility (in the form of textile surfaces) and light, whereby the experience
of those sensations/materials will stand at the center. I will map
temporal patterns found in nature and investigate how they can be applied
in the design of dynamic light in order to create a composed experience with
traces of nature.
Rhythms found in nature are familiar and at the same time undergo constant
variations. Wherever we are, we recognize the waves of the sea or a
river as waves and at the same time every wave is unique, a shifting variation
of the former. The work will explore how one is able to design or compose a
balance between the known and the unknown, the familiar and the ongoing
variations of the familiar, embedding moments of chance and surprise.
Although we today are becoming increasingly detached from the presence
of nature, we are still deeply related to it through our long, interwoven
evolution and the biological rhythms of our bodies, such as heartbeats,
breathing or the way we age. This work aims to link our awareness back to
those rhythms and doing that, I will be closing the circle created by my previous
works (woven light - powered by sun energy, Light Shell and Light and
Shadow play - the sun an aesthetic trigger for urban textiles), in which the
rhythm of daylight was central to the design process, the expressions and the
concepts.
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