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Calligraphic Transmissions

CarolSalmanson.com Administrator — Wed, 11 May 2011 21:12:03 +0000

Calligraphic Transmissions drawings were made with gouache on paper.

Gesture Drawings

CarolSalmanson.com Administrator — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 22:01:18 +0000

8" x 10" x 1.75"

Gesture Drawings are made of LEDs and fine wire. They have mirrored and diffused sheets of plexiglass layered over one another, maintaining space between them and embedded with various colors and shapes of LEDs into the top layer’s two sides. Their wiring is on both sides as well, and the diffusion makes the wires on the bottom cast shadows visible from the top. The wires thus become gray lines and shadows that have the complex interplay of pencil drawings. I have been collecting many different colors, sizes and shapes of small LEDs, including some no longer made, with beautiful shapes such as “tombstones,” and rectangles that are transparent from the side and diffused on the top.

LEDs, wire, plexi, mylar

2010-11

Bubble Drawings

CarolSalmanson.com Administrator — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:02:23 +0000

These collages are made from prismatic reflective sheeting and reflective pigments. Their sparkle and glow change with the angle of light hitting them.

Light Lines

CarolSalmanson.com Administrator — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:38:25 +0000

These works on paper use the concept of circuit drawings to transform diagrams into aesthetic visual objects, using the limits of positive and negative current as each piece’s starting point. The copper tape serves as a major design element as well as conducts power to the embedded LEDs.