Lo que la luz esconde
The work is briefly divided into two parts: The first, which is the first thing you see, is a white triangle, representing the light that shows us what is hidden in the darkness of this work. Inside it has two groups of lines that have different shades (a light shade of gray and a darker shade) that move from one side to the other, but they go in opposite directions, crossing each other at the same time and in the same way always in respective parts of their movement since their trajectory is always the same, just in different directions.
Around all this there are 2 black triangles representing the darkness between everything previously explained. Pressing the right mouse button turns the light off and pressing the left mouse button turns it back on. The second part of the work is that when the white triangle is activated it transforms into a black one, leaving the entire screen completely black without being able to see anything else.
Technical, aesthetic and conceptual development
Mainly the work is developed from the text “The medium is the message” by Mcluhan, Marshall from 1964, in which in a part of his text to explain his point of view he exemplifies electric light, which is essential information for this type of work, without it there would not be a light bulb to illuminate a work in complete darkness, or electricity to be able to see through a device, be it a computer, cell phone, or any medium which can reproduce these works, or as the author himself says: “It matters little whether it is used to illuminate a surgical procedure or a baseball game. It could be argued that these activities are the “content” of electric light, since they cannot exist without it. This circumstance only emphasizes the fact that the medium is the message” because it is the medium that shapes and controls the scale and form of human associations and work.” In the work this light is represented with a white triangle between two black ones, which shows the light between the darkness to show the work. What is seen inside that triangle is an adaptation by Ben F. Laposky, who with an oscilloscope created some very interesting shapes. Each group consists of 20 lines and they move in opposite directions so that albas intersect at the same point as if they were perfectly synchronized. The trajectory is marked with a sine function which varying some of its data makes that trajectory in particular, changing any of that data would completely change it.
The program is developed in such a way that it begins by showing the work itself, three triangles, one white and two black, the white one represents a light source pointing at the work, showing how Laposky’s group of lines move across the screen, being able to see the part where the light points. Both groups have 2 different shades of gray to be able to distinguish them from each other and allow each group to be separated when crossing each other. And the black triangles point to darkness or what one cannot see due to lack of light. When you press the right click of the mouse, that white triangle transforms into a black one, thus representing the lack of light or electricity and the only thing we can see is the same darkness. When you press the left click, it becomes a white triangle again and with the work being shown again.