Alessandra Fleck-Looking Outwards-09 – [OLD FALL 2018] 15-104 • Introduction to Computing for Creative Practice

For this looking outwards, I wanted to look at Yingyang Zhou’s Looking Outwards 08 entry on media artist Chris Cheung. According to Yingyang, Cheung’s work is inspired by the intersection of light rays though a Brilliant cut grade diamond. Yingyang describes the phenomenon of Cheung’s work as “…splendors of our mother nature, ranging from the galaxy and distant stars, rare gemstones, glistens of flowing water, and refracted light beams.” Looking at Cheung’s work I agree that perhaps a key foundation to his work stems from a subtle, yet elegant event of light refraction that brings life to varying elements of mother nature. The fact that the theme of the project carries such a universal language, I think is very interesting. Additionally to Yingyang’s analysis on Cheung’s work I also think that as seen in his installation, Prismverse, the illuminated interior that as Yinyang notes is a metaphor for “the instant tone-up effect of Dr.Jart + V7 Toning Light” also acts as moment of extraction. What Cheung’s work seems to do is take a rudimentary event that occurs in nature and blows it up into a perspective that we can walk into. Typically the type of light refraction Cheung illustrates does not occur at such a large scale. Pulling the scale up and displaying the work at such a large level highlights the subtle beauty that is otherwise overlooked.

The images below shows the glowing effect of the Prismverse installation.