UFO PIGMENT:Double Yellow

UFO PIGMENT:Double YellowThis design is meant to create a strip of vibrating light in the center of the chest. The eye flickers between the two bands, looking for a place to land. It is an idea stolen from painting and deconstructed in an art object made with pure painting pigment. Named UFO as an encouragement not to limit escapist fantasies to this planet. Pure fine art pigment set in thick quartz, housed in precision machined black anodized aluminum and attached with a

trapped in glass between two spikes

A fresnel lens set over a mirror in a black anodized bezel precision machined out of solid aluminum

Art pigments have been refined to a tight family of colors over thousands of years

so do the boundaries between the glass

but there is no electric light coming out of these little sculptures

Made with a dichroic laboratory lens laminated over a magnifying crystal

isolated and contained in glass

A magnifying crystal that reflects and breaks apart the colors of the surrounding space

Japanese Indigo and Malachite

the reflective glass spheres light up and reveal their true colors

The kind of high wattage laboratory synthetic color that was elevated to fine art status by the pop art movement

A blue mirror that shifts to a glowing red lens as it moves