I can’t get the autoplay to work on all three videos – it should look like this.

These all record a day (a different day each) from the appearance of daylight to its disappearance. The temporal scale of 100 x real time (or 1:100) provides a duration of just over 7 minutes – this requires the viewer to commit to the act of watching, but also allows the appearance and disappearance of daylight to move at what feels like an appropriate pace – slow enough to notice the qualities at different stages of light, but fast enough to see the slow changes in light.

Light Modulator is a work which uses a 1:25 model as the basis to record footage of light. The model is made to be modular, based on a standard panel size of 1.2 x 2.4 meters.

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