Homage to 16x9 Ocher to Blue

Variation on a theme.  1.33 (or 4 x 3) was the original aspect ratio of motion pictures.  When the advent of television threatened the viability of movie theaters, the studios started using various versions of widescreen – Cinemascope and wider screens of several aspect ratios ranging from 1.66 to 2.00.  When television converted to wider screen, an aspect ratio of 16x9 (1.77) was adopted.

In addition to working with Still Life and exploring how light changes over time, I’ve been experimenting with juxtaposing colors and looking at how the subjective perception of color mutates when colors are placed next to each other.  These are, of course, based on Josef Albers’s series Homage to the Square.  What I’ve done is add the 4th Dimension – Time – to the mixture.  Now, as the colors morph slowly over time, their relationship to each other changes as well.  Each Homage lasts 14 minutes.  For 2 minutes, the colors remain the same, then they slowly mutate for 10 minutes and then for 2 minutes the final set of colors remains unchanging.