Lighting Field (After Walter de Maria)

‘Lighting Field (After Walter de Maria)’, MDF, Copper and Fibreglass Board, Wire, Tin, LEDs, Desk Fan, Photo Emulsion, Resin Printed Angel of Saint Matthew (2026). 

‘Lighting Field (After Walter de Maria)’, MDF, Copper and Fibreglass Board, Wire, Tin, LEDs, Desk Fan, Photo Emulsion, Resin Printed Angel of Saint Matthew (2026). 

‘Lighting Field (After Walter de Maria)’, MDF, Copper and Fibreglass Board, Wire, Tin, LEDs, Desk Fan, Photo Emulsion, Resin Printed Angel of Saint Matthew (2026). 

‘Lighting Field (After Walter de Maria)’, MDF, Copper and Fibreglass Board, Wire, Tin, LEDs, Desk Fan, Photo Emulsion, Resin Printed Angel of Saint Matthew (2026). 

‘Lighting Field (After Walter de Maria)’, MDF, Copper and Fibreglass Board, Wire, Tin, LEDs, Desk Fan, Photo Emulsion, Resin Printed Angel of Saint Matthew (2026). 

‘Lighting Field (After Walter de Maria)’, MDF, Copper and Fibreglass Board, Wire, Tin, LEDs, Desk Fan, Photo Emulsion, Resin Printed Angel of Saint Matthew (2026). 

‘Lighting Field (After Walter de Maria)’, MDF, Copper and Fibreglass Board, Wire, Tin, LEDs, Desk Fan, Photo Emulsion, Resin Printed Angel of Saint Matthew (2026). 

‘Lighting Field (After Walter de Maria)’, MDF, Copper and Fibreglass Board, Wire, Tin, LEDs, Desk Fan, Photo Emulsion, Resin Printed Angel of Saint Matthew (2026). 

‘Lighting Field (After Walter de Maria)’, is a multi-panel lightbox depicting an appropriated photograph of the artwork ‘The Lightning Field’, by land artist Walter de Maria. For this project, the photograph of De Maria’s work was photo-etched onto 9 copper clad boards, composed of one part copper, and one part FR4. These boards were bound within an MDF box, and soldered into a circuit powering 2 LED’s. As such, the photograph’s operational roles are brought to light, and the conditions of the photo-etche’s creation effect become limitations which effect the capability of the image to perform its task.