Kochu.Studio

Studies in light 07

Transmission simulation

Noon
Window

The folds and seeds of Garden Before Noon become panes of coloured glass. Move the light to send their pattern across the plaster and down onto the floor.

Direction of the light
A suspended stained-glass panel casts a coloured pattern across a warm plaster room. Noon Window room simulation A suspended glass panel based on Garden Before Noon holds amber sweeps, a blush petal, a dark green stem, two red seeds and a blue oval. Its light pattern falls to the right on the wall and crosses onto the floor at steeper angles.
01 Suspended panel02 Projected light

The same panel at three angles

Where the colour lands

High wall. The full projection hangs on the plaster beside the panel.01 High wall30° across · 14° down Noon. The projection shifts farther right and its bottom edge reaches the floor.02 Noon44° across · 27° down Floor spill. The lower yellow and green sweeps fold across the corner onto the floor.03 Floor spill56° across · 39° down
Iana Kochu’s painting Garden Before Noon on an easel, with dark green, amber, pink, blue and red forms.
Iana Kochu · Garden Before Noon

The original

From paint to panes

The glass pattern follows ten traced shapes in Iana Kochu’s painting. Each pane passes a different amount of red, green and blue light. The seams interrupt the beam and leave darker lines on the room surfaces.

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