Manuela Montenegro Imagination Fund Application — Light Project
Light is an ongoing photography project by Manuela Montenegro that uses slow shutter speeds and camera movement to paint with light, then edits the images into kaleidoscopes and geometric shapes. This is Manuela Montenegro's 2024 Playbook Imagination Fund application to print and exhibit the work.
Artist statement
Light is an ongoing personal project in which I use my camera as a paintbrush to capture light and its colors. I look for any sight of light, whether inside a church with its impressive mosaic window, Christmas lights, or later events, or even inside the museum. By using the camera's slow shutter speed and moving it, I can capture true light and move it like a paintbrush. By Stopping and freezing light, I preserve invisible colors to the naked eye. From there, I get an image and move it to Photoshop, where I edit around to create it into a geometrical shape or a kaleidoscope. I made these images inspired or influenced by the infinity effect, the mandalas, and the Rorschach test. In addition to my inspirations, I like the messages Allen Watts had made. Each of my pictures makes the view feel different, and their abstraction takes the viewer into a state of meditation.
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