Art history is littered with work that involves light.
Lifes light. Life is light. You can make light do anything you want to. Photography means 'light writing'.
As a young artist working in multiple mediums, the work and especially the writings of artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy were very important to me.
At my first exhibits, people were saying that's just a light on the wall.
I like to use light as a material, but my medium is actually perception. I want you to sense yourself sensing - to see yourself seeing.
I started out with projected-light works and working indoors, but I'd prepare the walls - by sanding, etcetera - the way you'd prepare a canvas for painting.
I'm known as a light artist. But rather than be someone who depicted light, or painted light in some way, I wanted to have the work be light.
I wanted to deal with light directly rather than with paint.
Photography is not only drawing with light, though light is the indispensable agent of its being. It is modeling or sculpturing with light, to reproduce the plastic form of natural objects. It is painting with light.
My latest works are these things with light bulbs.
I have been interested in neon for a long time. The first neon I made was in 2006, using the word 'America.'
