Light Painting Sculpture – Four dimensional art | Light Painting by Patrick Rochon

The art of moving light

I'm a light painter. With photography, video and live performances, I've been painting with light since 1992.
My work is about the movement of light cumulating through time and space. My mission is to get the greater public to know what light painting is, and for it to be recognized worldwide as a form of art.

I used my skills as a light painter to work on the idea of a light sculpture. I almost want to say a kinetic light sculpture because of the look and the feeling it gives, but in reality these are all movements done by hand in a studio on a black background with the new light tools Sylvain Lavoie and I built. We shot video and photography simultaneously. The target size was 1920×560. Since I didn’t have enough cameras for the shoot, I needed two more, I shot left side and right side separately. While I was shooting, used my imagination and intuition to connect both sides of the lights in the frames. Later when editing, I “glued” the right and the left together in After Effects.
It took a month of R&D and a lot of testing to get to this final edit, to this simplicity. During these weeks of edit, I was searching for the essence of the piece staying truthful to the vision and to the shooting. I took out everything that didn’t belong in, like a sculptor who carves away every little piece to unravel the purest form.
Later while I finished rendering all the effects, I searched for music that could fit the images. I came across the song Decay by Monolake, an artist I’ve been admiring for a long time. I tried it with the images and the fit was perfect.

Even if I’ve been considering light painting a four dimensional art form for a while now, I never mentioned it until now.
This piece is a good example where you can see and experience the four dimensions at work simply because the light cumulates through space and time to create a final image. It’s the cumulation of all the pieces that creates the final moment, the complete picture.
I see this video as a meditative experience that tickles the imagination.
Enjoy!

The pictures here below are exactly what was shot in studio with out any alteration or retouching.