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Happy Birth Day

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Happy Birth Day It took two years in the making to create this first-of-its-kind installation combining two technologies – a 4D vision light sculpture with an LED floor The Digital Light Canvas is 20-metres high and the light sculpture alone is 14-metres tall The light sculpture measures 7-metres in diameter and consists of 401,280 LEDs (more than twice that of our Crystal Universe exhibit in  Future World: Where Art Meets Science) The LED floor has over 7.7 million individually controlled Surface Mounted Diodes (SMD) LEDs Our LEDS are energy efficient, yet able to produce an output 3x brighter than normal LEDs to enhance its visibility throughout the day Guests who visit during special seasons can enjoy special elements such as fireworks and festive ornaments on the installation

canvas of light

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When I first started doing the stain paintings, I left large areas of canvas unpainted, I think, because the canvas itself acted as forcefully and as positively as paint or line or color. In other words, the very ground was part of the medium, so that instead of thinking of it as background or negative space or an empty spot, that area did not need paint because it had paint next to it. The thing was to decide where to leave it and where to fill it and where to say this doesn't need another line or another pail of colors. Its saying it in space. This allows the artist to incorporate painted edges into the artwork itself without staples at the sides, and the artwork can be displayed without a frame. Splined canvas can be restretched by adjusting the spline. Stapled canvases   stay stretched tighter over a longer period of time, but are more difficult to re-stretch when the need arises.