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holographic light recording, glass, 2022
holographic light recording, glass, 2022
holographic light recording, glass, 2022
holographic light recording, glass, 2022
holographic light recording, glass, 2022
holographic light recording, glass, 2022
holographic light recording, glass, 2022
holographic light recording, glass, 2022
The Chalice In The Heart
holographic light recording, glass, 2022
Die Grosse Mutter
holographic light recording, glass, 2022
The Center Spiritual Sun
holographic light recording, glass, 2022
Night Wind
holographic light recording, glass, 2022
The Blossoming of The Grail is a diffraction series of transmission holograms that explores the imaginal, psychological, and spiritual elements in the creative work of artist and scholar, Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn, and presents a new body of transdisciplinarity research in the form of an ekphrastic artistic interpretation of ten selected artworks from Olga’s Meditation Plates and Visions series.
This new collection of holographic pieces—informed by Fröbe- Kapteyn’s hypnotic work—was analyzed using an alchemical lens of light, which is how I define holography—the transmutation of invisible light into material reality. The ten corresponding holographic light sculptures utilize light optics recordings, glass casting techniques, and depth psychological methods of active imagination and dreamwork to capture the essence and importance of Fröbe-Kapteyn’s relationship with the dynamic realm of the unconscious.
The title of this body of work borrows its name from a letter penned to Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn by esotericist Arthur Edward Waite, in which he expresses the numinous quality of her repetitive inclusion of an inspirited “blossoming of the Grail” theme throughout her esoteric drawing series Visions–which arose from her conscious engagement with the unconscious via the Jungian technique of active imagination.
The resulting holographic light recordings from this series of diffraction experiments evokes the more mysterious dynamics and symbolic aspects of light, and honors the autonomous nature of light itself—an expression of the invisible unknown. For me, the imagery produced using these holographic techniques reveals that holography is essentially the art of making the invisible visible, and takes into account the multidimensional realities revealed in the diffraction patterns of light waves that emerges in the glass holograms.
Engaging with the unconscious and cultivating a relationship with the unknown was integral to the life and creative work of Fröbe-Kapteyn and her rough contemporaries. In fostering a connection with the objective psyche, we are forced to acknowledge our limitations as human beings, and to embrace the mystery of what we cannot see or know for certain. Through the imaginal language of light waves, this ekphrastic series aims to make visible the profound impact that the metaphysical, non-linear realm actually has on our perceptual experience of reality and meaning-making processes.