Week 5: Shoreline lights

This past weekend in Laguna Beach, native California artist Elizabeth Turk hosted by the Laguna Art Museum, presented her Shoreline Project based on her Seashell X-Ray Mandala Series. Using bright LED lights installed in the shaft of the umbrella, they illuminated a haunting, geometric, x-ray like mandala image through the lining of the umbrella. Held by community participants, this massive collection of around 1,000 umbrellas wandering along the coastline gave an interesting and dynamic combination of movement and lighting. Each illuminated umbrella moved independently across the beach eventually creating a sense of different flowing pathways and patterns. This selective use of light almost evokes the use of gobos and how light can be formed to define specific shapes and designs.