Unfolding of the Wave
five images
Light Drawing #18045–18047
Erinn E. Hagerty & Adam P. Savje, Light Drawing #18045–18047. Light, 16mm Ektachrome hand-processed film, color transparencies, scanned in 5K, 9082 X 5120 px (2019)
Light Drawing #18285 & 18333
Erinn E. Hagerty & Adam P. Savje, Light Drawing #18285 & 18333. Light, 16mm Ektachrome hand-processed film, color transparencies, scanned in 5K, 5120 X 7509 px (2019).
Light Drawing #27754–27756
Erinn E. Hagerty & Adam P. Savje, Light Drawing #27754–27756. Light, 16mm Ektachrome hand-processed film, color transparencies, scanned in 5K, 9275 X 4913 px (2019).
Light Drawing #27851
Erinn E. Hagerty & Adam P. Savje, Light Drawing #27851. Light, 16mm Ektachrome hand-processed film, color transparencies, scanned in 5K, 5120 X 3840 px (2019).
Light Drawing #29315
Erinn E. Hagerty & Adam P. Savje, Light Drawing #29315. Light, 16mm Ektachrome hand-processed film, color transparencies, scanned in 5K, 3841 X 2771 px (2019).
About Light Drawings
For the past six years, collaboration has become an integral part of both our processes. We appreciate the binaries and singularities that are threaded throughout our interactions and unfolding process. We are struck by the potential for geometry and abstraction to create a space for reflecting on the nature of relationships. We construct our Light Drawings series by programming a motion-controlled Oxberry animation camera system to photograph transparencies of our geometric artwork as we animate it under the camera onto 16mm color film. Through this performance, we are able to shape the light. Light is an inherent component. We celebrate light and its ability to be energizing as well as hypnotic, fluid as well as frenetic, formal as well as functional. We are inspired by light’s ouroboric nature, cycling, building, and re-forming from itself, and while doing so, is the method of its own creation. After the film is exposed, we then hand-process it. This medium and technique’s intrinsic complexity and materiality share concurrently with relationships the potential for the unexpected.
Erinn E. Hagerty is an interdisciplinary artist employing animation, film & video, kinetic sculpture, microscopy, and installation. She is a professor of animation at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), focusing on 3-Dimensional topics, VR, and digital & analog integration.
Adam Savje is an artist who works primarily with light & colour using analog film techniques and devices. He is Assistant Director of the Animation department at the Massachusetts College of Art & Design.
With their collective, Unfolding of the Wave Ltd, they develop films and installations that implement abstract visuals to create a space for reflecting on the nature of relationships. Their roving studio thrives between Boston, MA, Philadelphia, PA, and Baltimore, MD.
Visit unfoldingofthewave.com & follow @unfoldingofthewave @eehagerty & @adampsavje on Instagram.