Week 7: Second Home Pavilion-Faaizah

My friends and I went to visit the Second Home Pavilion in La Brea Tar Pits. We went during midday so there was a lot of sunlight hitting the installation. The artist used different types of material ranging in how reflective they were and in what colors she used for both the elastic bands and in the canopies she made. The resulting effect was a very soft yet textured gradient of different colors that shown on us as we walked through. I loved the effect that the tinfoil-like canopy material gave off in some of the areas of the installation because of the tiny beads of light that it reflected on whatever its light hit. It was a great feeling seeing so many people making comments on the different properties of light that the different areas of the exhibit had. Because the installation was out in the open in the middle of the Tar Pits park, I feel like everyone's experiencing walking through the exhibit would be different considering the different times of day they would see it. I would love to come back at a different time of day to see how differently the sun's angle would effect areas of the exhibit. Walking through the exhibit made me think a lot about the gels we use when lighting in theatre. It made me wonder how much different light would look if we experimented with not only different colors but different textures of gel.