‘Triangulation’
2015
Materials: Polarisers, Wood, Sellotape
Exhibition: 'Welcome Disturbance’, The LAB Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
January 29th 2015 - April 11th 2015
http://www.ucdartinscience.com/welcome-disturbances/4588048237A light wave vibrating along more than one plane is referred to as unpolarised light. It vibrates in all three dimensions in space, but, when transmitted through a polarising filter the light emerges with half the instensity and only vibrating on a single plane - it emerges in a polarised form. Polarisers are optical filters that allow light of a specific orientation to pass through them. When two polarisers are placed in perpendicular arrangement all light is blocked, making an otherwise transparent object become totally black. The forms look completely transparent in the gallery, but they turn black and solid when viewed through the polarisers on the window.