Diane Lachman
Other World
2023
Ink jet printed photograph on Hahnemuhle rag paper
signed by artist on back
8" x 12"
Limited edition 1/10
About
"I began my prismatic photography project in March 2020, when we were locked down at home. One quiet sunny morning, I noticed a rainbow on the wall that was coming from a vase on the windowsill. I remembered that I had several prisms at home that I used when I taught Color Theory in Penn’s Fine Arts department. When I placed a prism in front of a ray of sunlight, to my delight, I saw a perfect color spectrum in the shadow on the floor. The next day I set up my camera. Looking through the lens was like looking through a kaleidoscope with multiple reflections and endless mixtures of colors and shapes.
My days became structured by the amount of light that came through my windows. As the seasons shifted, I observed and recorded the change of the position of the sun and quality of light and shadow each day. Over the past few years, I developed an abstract technique that produces a new sense of time passing. I take many photos of each set-up. I select the best from each session to create a body of work.
The purity of nature continues to fascinate me by capturing the evanescence of the prismatic colors.
In my photographs, the prisms create reflection and refraction with the colors from the rays of the sun. Reflection is a property of light, but it is also time to question and examine my thoughts and surroundings. Shifting my viewpoint completely changes the reflections and patterns of what I see."