Xanadu has a new feature on Stolen Butter, an artist-owned studio and art gallery based in LA! Prints are also available for purchase on their website.
Light surrounds us constantly. It nurtures every living thing, reveals the beauty of the universe, connects us across thousands of miles of underwater cable and powers thousands of electrical grids around the world.
For visual artists, light serves as both a brushstroke and a canvas, and influences everything they make. The ever-changing nature of this ubiquitous resource, however, can also upend an artist’s best laid plans with minuscule shifts in the angle of the sun, or slight changes of humidity — completely altering the mood and meaning of any moment.
So what happens when the artist tries to wield light itself in service to a deeper goal?