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Sylvie's Light Sculpture

8395 Chilliwack Mountain Road
Chilliwack, BC, V2R
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Sylvie's Light Boxes

Light Boxes

Here are my light sculptures as light boxes. They are welded wire and fabric constructions with integrated lighting. I invented "fabric burning", a technique that consists of melting small holes in synthetic fabric with a soldering iron. This is often combined with sewn photocopies on acetate of images and maps. Prices show when pieces are still available. Others can be inspiration for future commissions.

Light Boxes

Here are my light sculptures as light boxes. They are welded wire and fabric constructions with integrated lighting. I invented "fabric burning", a technique that consists of melting small holes in synthetic fabric with a soldering iron. This is often combined with sewn photocopies on acetate of images and maps. Prices show when pieces are still available. Others can be inspiration for future commissions.

"Blue Walnut"

"Blue Walnut"

2021

32" x 42" x 3"

Recycled welded wire, polyester fabric, LED light.

"Green Douglas Fir"

"Green Douglas Fir"

2020

18” x 40” x 3”

Recycled welded wire, repurposed polyester fabric and LED lighting.

"Solstice Cedar"

"Solstice Cedar"

2020

18” x 36” x 3”

Repurposed polyester fabric, recycled welded steel wire, silver ink and LED light.

$585

''Anne's Chestnut Tree''

''Anne's Chestnut Tree''

2008

Private collection,

London, UK.

photo: J. Pierce

"West Coast Journey"

"West Coast Journey"

2020

Recycled welded wire, polyester fabric, ink and light.

Commissioned light sculpture for private collector in the Netherlands.

"Fall Tessellation"

"Fall Tessellation"

2019

30’’ x 30’’ x 2’’ each.

Recycled wire, polyester fabric, ink and LED light.

Queen Anne’s Lace (wild carrot) was the only vegetation left after the fires in 2018. It saw it as a sign of resilience

''Fall Tessellation'', detail

''Fall Tessellation'', detail

''Maple Leaf Tessellation''

''Maple Leaf Tessellation''

2019

31’’ x 31’’ x 2’’

Recycled welded wire, polyester fabric, ink and light.

''Maple Leaf Tessellation'', detail.

''Maple Leaf Tessellation'', detail.

''Spring Light Tessellation''

''Spring Light Tessellation''

2019

29’’ x 29’’ x 2’’

Recycled welded wire, polyester fabric, inks and light.

''Spring Light Tessellation'', detail

''Spring Light Tessellation'', detail

''Asteracea Tessellation''

''Asteracea Tessellation''

2019

30’’ x 30’’ x 2’’

Recycled welded wire, recycled polyester fabric, paint, ink and light.

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  ''Fern Light House''   2019  21’’ x 8 1/2’’ x 8 1/2’’  Recycled welded wire, recycled polyester fabric, ink and light.

''Fern Light House''

2019

21’’ x 8 1/2’’ x 8 1/2’’

Recycled welded wire, recycled polyester fabric, ink and light.

''Yellow Bird House''

''Yellow Bird House''

2019

21’’ x 8 1/2’’ x 8 1/2’’

Recycled welded wire, recycled polyester fabric, photocopy on acetate, ink and light.

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''Heart on her Sleeve, Shirt off her Back''

''Heart on her Sleeve, Shirt off her Back''

2019

21’’ x 8 1/2’’ x 8 1/2’’

Recycled welded wire, recycled polyester shirt, photocopy on acetate, thread, ink and light.

'' Heart on her Sleeve, Shirt off her back'' (back side)

'' Heart on her Sleeve, Shirt off her back'' (back side)

'' Heart on her Sleeve, Shirt off her back'', details

'' Heart on her Sleeve, Shirt off her back'', details

''Blue Heron House''

''Blue Heron House''

2019

21’’ x 8 1/2’’ x 8 1/2’’

Recycled welded wire, recycled polyester fabric, ink and light.

''Blue Heron House'', details

''Blue Heron House'', details

''Beech Tree House''

''Beech Tree House''

2019

21’’ x 8 1/2’’ x 8 1/2’’

Recycled welded wire, polyester fabric, ink and light.

''Beech Tree House'', detail

''Beech Tree House'', detail

"Little Green House"

"Little Green House"

2019

21’’ x 8 1/2’’ x 8 1/2’’

Recycled welded wire, polyester fabric, ink and light.

''Little Green House'', detail

''Little Green House'', detail

''Winter Tessellation''

''Winter Tessellation''

2018

32’’ x 50’’ x 4’’

Recycled welded wire, polyester fabric. ink and light.

''Winter Tessellation'', detail

''Winter Tessellation'', detail

''Beech Tree Tessellation''

''Beech Tree Tessellation''

5 elements measuring 24’’ x 30’’ x 4 1/2’’ each

Recycled welded wire, polyester fabric, ink and light.

''Beech Tree Tessellation'', detail

''Beech Tree Tessellation'', detail

  Elements , 2017  21'' x 21'' x 3''  Recycled welded wire, polyester fabric, black and silver ink.

Elements, 2017

21'' x 21'' x 3''

Recycled welded wire, polyester fabric, black and silver ink.

  Vanishing Ice , 2017  21''x 21'' x 3''  Recycled welded wire, recycled polyester shirts, black and silver ink.   

Vanishing Ice, 2017

21''x 21'' x 3''

Recycled welded wire, recycled polyester shirts, black and silver ink.

 

Sylvie's Light Boxes

The Active Landscape

The Active Landscape

2018

25'' x 25'' x 3''

Recycled welded wire, Polyester fabric, silver ink, acatate and light.

The Active Landscape

The Active Landscape

detail of the centre image: topographical map, photocopied on acetate.

''Small Red Cedar''

''Small Red Cedar''

2018

10 1/2’’ x 27’’ x 2’’

Light box with removable panel (magnetized)

Recycled welded wire, polyester fabric, silver ink and light.

$375 SOLD 05-2019

Small Douglas Fir

Small Douglas Fir

 2018.

10 1/2'' x 21'' x 3''

Small Pine

Small Pine

2018.

10 1/2'' x 27'' x 3''

Light box with removable panel (magnetized)

Recycled welded wire, polyester fabric, ink and light

$375

Small Hemlock

Small Hemlock

2018

 10'' x 21'' x 3''

Trees: Douglas Fir and red Sun

Trees: Douglas Fir and red Sun

2009

18"x 42" x3"

Welded wire, polyester, fabric,ink, light.

Trees: Forest

Trees: Forest

2007

18"x 36" x 3"

Tree of Life

Tree of Life

2009

30" x 42" x 3"

Tree of life (detail)

Tree of life (detail)

Le maronnier de Anne

Le maronnier de Anne

2008

30"x 36" x 3"

...With Anne Frank's words inside birds.

La maronnier de Anne (detail)

La maronnier de Anne (detail)

New World

New World

2009

30" x 36" x 3"

New World (detail)

New World (detail)

Trees: Together

Trees: Together

2009

95" x 36" x 3"

Trees: Bird and Maple

Trees: Bird and Maple

2009

 

Trees: Red Maple

Trees: Red Maple

30"x 36" x3"

Trees: Red Arbutus

Trees: Red Arbutus

18" x 30" x 3"

Red Cedar

Red Cedar

2008

36" x 60" x 3"

Blue Hemlock

Blue Hemlock

2006

36" x 60" x 3"

Recycled welded wire, polyester fabric and light.

$1500

Hurdles

Hurdles

Kinetic Light Sculpture

Welded wire, polyester fabric, photocopy on acetate, light.

Inspired from Eadweard Muybridge photography.

Hurdles (detail)

Hurdles (detail)

Landscape: Black Tusk

Landscape: Black Tusk

2012

36" x 24" x 3"

Welded wire, polyester fabric, photocopies of topographical maps, light.

 

Landscape: Black Tusk (detail)

Landscape: Black Tusk (detail)

Landscape: Windy Coast

Landscape: Windy Coast

36" x18" x 3"

Welded wire, polyester fabric, photocopies of marine charts, ink, light.

Windy Coast (detail)

Windy Coast (detail)

Landscape: Mountain Raven

Landscape: Mountain Raven

2012

18" x 36" x 3"

Welded wire, polyester fabric, photocopies of topographic maps on acatate, ink, light.

Landscape: Mountain Raven (detail)

Landscape: Mountain Raven (detail)

Landscape: Sandpipers

Landscape: Sandpipers

2012

36’’ x 24’’ x 3’’

Welded wire, polyester fabric, photocopies on acetate of marine charts, ink, light.

$600

Landscape: Sanpipers (detail)

Landscape: Sanpipers (detail)

Landscape: River Journey

Landscape: River Journey

2012

36" x 25" x3"

Pris et protégé

Pris et protégé

2010

42'' X 18'' X 3''

Pris et protégé et condamné par la mer
Je flotte au creux des houles
Les colonnes du ciel pressent mes épaules
Mes yeux fermés refusent l’archange bleu
Les poids des profondeurs frissonnent sous moi
Je suis seul et nu
Je suis seul et sel
Je flotte à la dérive sur la mer
J’entends l’aspiration géante des dieux noyés
J’écoute les derniers silences
Au-delà des horizons morts

(Alain Grandbois)

 

Pris et protégé (detail)

Pris et protégé (detail)

Dreams at Sea

Dreams at Sea

2010

36" x 42" X3"

 

Fireworks

Fireworks

2008

18" x 24" x 3"

Recycled welded wire, polyester fabric, ink and light.

$300

Dreams at Sea (detail)

Dreams at Sea (detail)

Lullaby for the Sea

Lullaby for the Sea

2010

25" x 36" x 3"

Garde la mer comme une poupée qu'on berce

en prévision des boulversements de saisons,

la mer couveuse d'étoiles calcifiées ou de traîtrise.

(Épaule d'ombre)

René Bélance, poète haitien, (1915-2004)

 

Lullaby for the Sea (detail)

Lullaby for the Sea (detail)

El Viento

El Viento

2010

36" x 48" x 3"

Recycled welded wire, polyester fabric, photocopy on acetate, ink and light.

$800

El viento en la isla

El viento es un caballo:
óyelo cómo corre
por el mar, por el cielo.

Quiere llevarme: escucha
cómo recorre el mundo
para llevarme lejos.

Escóndeme en tus brazos
por esta noche sola,
mientras la lluvia rompe
contra el mar y la tierra
su boca innumerable.

Escucha como el viento
me llama galopando
para llevarme lejos.

Con tu frente en mi frente,
con tu boca en mi boca,
atados nuestros cuerpos
al amor que nos quema,
deja que el viento pase
sin que pueda llevarme.

Deja que el viento corra
coronado de espuma,
que me llame y me busque
galopando en la sombra,
mientras yo, sumergido
bajo tus grandes ojos,
por esta noche sola
descansaré, amor mío.


Lee todo en: El viento en la isla - Poemas de Pablo Neruda http://www.poemas-del-alma.com/el-viento-en-la-isla.htm#ixzz3a9CONNA1

El Viento (detail)

El Viento (detail)

I am Blood (detail)

I am Blood (detail)

Eye of the Cyclop

Eye of the Cyclop

 

#70 on top 500 poets

 

Bogland

for T. P. Flanagan

We have no prairies
To slice a big sun at evening--
Everywhere the eye concedes to
Encrouching horizon,

Is wooed into the cyclops' eye
Of a tarn. Our unfenced country
Is bog that keeps crusting
Between the sights of the sun.

They've taken the skeleton
Of the Great Irish Elk
Out of the peat, set it up
An astounding crate full of air.

Butter sunk under
More than a hundred years
Was recovered salty and white.
The ground itself is kind, black butter

Melting and opening underfoot,
Missing its last definition
By millions of years.
They'll never dig coal here,

Only the waterlogged trunks
Of great firs, soft as pulp.
Our pioneers keep striking
Inwards and downwards,

Every layer they strip
Seems camped on before.
The bogholes might be Atlantic seepage.
The wet centre is bottomless.

Seamus Heaney

I am Blood

I am Blood

... i am water

    i am blood

    i am the hot rum leaking from green...

   

   Kamau Brathwaite

   Born in 1930, Barbados.

Eye of the Cyclop (detail)

Eye of the Cyclop (detail)

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Geobloom Series: Transcanada Bloom

Geobloom Series: Transcanada Bloom

Transcanada Bloom (detail0

Transcanada Bloom (detail0

Geobloom Series: St-Lawrence

Geobloom Series: St-Lawrence

St-Lawrence (detail)

St-Lawrence (detail)

Geobloom Series: Northern Bouquet

Geobloom Series: Northern Bouquet

Nothern Bouquet (detail)

Nothern Bouquet (detail)

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Manitoba (detail)

Manitoba (detail)

Geobloom Series: Maize

Geobloom Series: Maize

Maize (detail)

Maize (detail)

Sandpipers (magnitized panel on light box)

Sandpipers (magnitized panel on light box)

31" x 21" x 3"

 Panel for dual use: window or light boxe.

 

Sanpipers (long format)

Sanpipers (long format)

Sandpiper (magnetized system)

Sandpiper (magnetized system)

Windy Coast

Windy Coast

21" x 31" x 3"

Sugar Maple (magnitize system)

Sugar Maple (magnitize system)

21" x 31 1/2" x 3"

Owl and Hemlock (magnetized system)

Owl and Hemlock (magnetized system)

21" x 31 1/2" x 3"

Light box with removable panel (magnetized)

Recycled welded wire, polyester fabric, photocopy on acetate, ink and light.

$600

How to See Deer (Woodland version)

How to See Deer (Woodland version)

31 1/2" x 21" x 3"

How to See Deer, Woodland (detail and poem)

How to See Deer, Woodland (detail and poem)

How to See Deer

Forget roadside crossings. Go nowhere with guns. Go elsewhere your own way, lonely and wanting. Or stay and be early: next to deep woods inhabit old orchards. All clearings promise. Sunrise is good, and fog before sun. Expect nothing always; find your luck slowly. Wait out the windfall. Take your good time to learn to read ferns; make like a turtle: downhill toward slow water. Instructed by heron, drink the pure silence. Be compassed by wind. If you quiver like aspen trust your quick nature: let your ear teach you which way to listen. You've come to assume protective color; now colors reform to new shapes in your eye. You've learned by now to wait without waiting; as if it were dusk look into light falling: in deep relief things even out. Be careless of nothing. See what you see.

Credit: 

"How to See Deer," from Lifelines by Philip Booth, copyright © 1999 by Philip Booth. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

Author: 

Philip Booth

How to See Deer (Spring version)

How to See Deer (Spring version)

31 1/2" x 21" x 3"

Sunrise and Beech Tree

Sunrise and Beech Tree

Icefield (detail)

Icefield (detail)

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''Lilac''

''Lilac''

2008

18’’ x 24’’ x 3’’

Recycled welded wire, polyester fabric, photocopy on acetate, ink and light.

$300

''Celtic Shuttle''

''Celtic Shuttle''

2008

Recycled welded wire, polyester fabric, metallic ink and light.

$300

Celtic Shuttle

Celtic Shuttle

2008

‘‘Recycled welded wire, polyester fabric, photocopy on acetate, ink and light.

$300

Icefield: Installation of five light boxes (21" x 21" each)  for exhibition at the Evergreen Cultural Centre in Coquitlam, B.C. in 2114.

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