UV LIGHT STUDIOS - Creative Process

MULTI-STEP CREATIVE PROCESS

The work begins as a 2 or 3 dimensional prototype utilizing acetates and plastics as a base and various forms of wet media including fluorescent paint, metallic dyes, india inks and acrylic paints.
In regular lighting conditions (can’t work in the dark) the wet media is mixed and applied randomly to the surface where it is allowed to dry and articulate itself into its desired final form - a form which “appears” to be blah and uninteresting. See example of “Ultraviolet” in regular light (before photo) .

before

after

However, the true reality of the prototype is not revealed until exposed under ultraviolet lights (see after photo). There the true reality is revealed as beautiful, mysterious and provocative. The prototype is photographed with a 35 mm digital camera under ultraviolet lights and then, in some cases, digitally enhanced and/or manipulated.
The images are then printed on backlit film and presented in two types of backlit framing options - one sleek and modern, the other, classy and elegant. The result is work that literally comes to life in the lighted frames (Gallery).

"A thing is considered known only when all the causes from the immediate to the ultimate ones are known, for the investigation of reality, presented to thought as its object, proceeds by asking first what it is, and secondly, why it is. The what explores the internal structure and the principles of a thing, while the why seeks the external factors that brought it into existence."

“Consciousness and Reality”
John B. Chethimattam