← Light experiments Kochu Studio 12

12 / Cast shadow study

Two Shadows

Turn on one lamp and the wall holds a face. Turn on the other and the same sculpture casts a curl drawn from The Listener.

One terracotta sculpture on a plinth. Its curl shadow falls on the left wall and its profile shadow falls on the right wall.

The curl appears on the left wall and the profile on the right.

Two beams · 90° apart

The source paintings

What the walls keep

Each shadow isolates one painted contour. The two shapes share a height so the same solid can carry both.

Quiet Face I

A · Right wall
Original Quiet Face I, an oval with mauve, rose and navy forms around a pale left-facing profile.
Painting
Traced blush profile with a tapered brow and chin.
Trace
Profile projected from the occupied sculpture along the Z axis.
Projection

The blush shape meets the blue along the edge of the forehead, nose and chin.

View the right-wall still ↗

The Listener

B · Left wall
Original The Listener, a pale blue curl around a long ochre comma against an indigo and yellow field.
Painting
Traced blue curl with an opening where the ochre comma sits.
Trace
Curl projected from the same occupied sculpture along the X axis.
Projection

The pale blue curl surrounds a small opening drawn from the ochre form inside it.

View the left-wall still ↗