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<br /> Shimmer will shine on art of light in dovvntown Chapel 'Hill Car Page 2 of 5
<br /> "I iI]IiILl IreiIie . t think',Mout lightning'striking, l think
<br /> icuj .when yun're at the beach and limet hits;iind you have that
<br /> ,st Roe flash out the waves sornetimes„' lie 5k:UCI,„ "If s soppoaed
<br /> to be ephemeral, it's suppooed,to he transient,sir it's,supposed
<br /> to he just he a inutneth.td heuuutiIel
<br /> There tire many ways!liar tight is o I1vriu OlOdiurn,behaving in
<br /> onexpected ways WhCIA people end objects cross its path,Chapel
<br /> Hill artist Noon GOMPA suu id,fik"Orgarno Light°creates a
<br /> thed.back loop,using ambient light from its surreanidi.ngs ii
<br /> encrate sponttlillMIS silhnuetrcs and patterns,
<br /> hat.I always enjoy kr Like le:orogentem with the piece room,than
<br /> tooktrag lit it from afar,'"Gotnes stk. '''irhat.'s when I.think tirare
<br /> aiwa,ys a little hit once of an volotional.response velure jun walk
<br /> into this thing,where something"that ii do ellaitges what yu,n'ite
<br /> seeing in tout oF:ool.t.—there's a'wow trameittt that oh tinges the
<br /> way you see the piece."'
<br /> Richmond,V2., has hosted a simtlar arts revival, fithight, frii the
<br /> last seVell years,loVtilkt said,.Thc event artracted mote.than
<br /> 30,000 people last year.
<br /> Shi riinu k friintiled, i.a part,with nloney them the CarrbOtU
<br /> rourism Authriiriry iind the IOW or Chapel Rill Public and
<br /> Cultural.Arts department,she said. Other piTilt PICTs include the
<br /> Duke ne igy Tbundation.rum d the Chapel lifill-Orange County
<br /> Visitors.lltureatt
<br /> 7,1110:.krt448 will be(ill hand,to talk alb out the work and encourage
<br /> people to get inarulveth Wolfe said 4:1110C also Will be selling their
<br /> works.
<br /> Carrboro artist.1,eigh Suggs recently Rayed to Richtriond to
<br /> autend virgana Commonwealth University, but she will return i“to
<br /> LIGHT Art+Design with a new'work of dicktrnie glass that floats
<br /> in space,rellethtli8 Ali atmosphere ni color.
<br /> Filiclitruiti glass gets it reflective properties from a spacial coating
<br /> originally developed.(hi LISC ri Satokihd mirrors a!riai space shuttle
<br /> re-entry tiles,.The effect is similar to rainbow p itteima in a soap
<br /> bubble or in the wings at i dragonfly,
<br /> Her works,tune said,eitplore the act of.secing in multiple ways,
<br /> whcttler It the colors you se,s;when you close'yanr.Pycs or her
<br /> mother's experience vii.th syrtestheka,a corichtion thin leauses her
<br /> to see the color of words when she reads.
<br /> "It's this idea that we all sec diftenent,and we all ire
<br /> experiencing die Viljtkl II iroagn e very private le r15, but we have
<br /> language and imageriea that help COTILIZZA or to be able to tells
<br /> about these things togritliec."Suggs said,."The light,of course, in
<br /> part of Lint,bins 91.1S0 righc its the tiring we need tel be able to see,"
<br /> Tammy Grobb. 919429-8924 OTtrarnyGniib
<br /> SHIMMER FESTIVAL
<br /> Neastly two dozen artists wilt light up downtown for'Shimmer;
<br /> The Art of:Light'.festival from atoll poi Frklay,Feb,12,,in
<br /> Chapel Hill and Corrboro,
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