At first encounter, what overwhelms the viewer are the colossal pixels that, instead of presenting a clear image, deconstruct the world into abstract and fragmented forms. Yet this visual rupture, much like a fading memory, possesses a certain beauty that emerges not from clarity but from the gaps in perception. Here light and color conspire not to represent but to recreate an experience an experience that stands on the threshold of emergence and dissolution like a utopian image that vanishes the moment it is grasped.
From a technical perspective the work’s approach to color and light is reminiscent of a researcher experimenting with a substance whose nature is not yet fully understood yet striving to bring it out of darkness. Here color does not merely rest on the surface of the work nor does it have texture nor is it tangible. Color is a phenomenon born of light dependent on the viewer’s position and the intensity of illumination. The presence of RGB lights behind the image transforms it from a static surface into a dynamic phenomenon one that can only be fully perceived in the passage of time. Pantone here is not merely contemplating color but the very essence of color the fact that in the end color is nothing but filtered light and in encountering it we experience not a material but a process.
Light and shadow in this work are not merely tools for creating volume but rather the central subjects themselves. Shadows play as crucial a role in shaping the image as the lights do. When a color fades away its absence is affirmed by shadow. This interaction elevates the piece beyond a mere image turning it into a visual action where absence and presence brightness and darkness are equivalent forces. The permanence of this work unlike classical media lies not in its stability but in its constant transformation and its resistance to a definitive interpretation.
Pantone in this work is neither seeking representation nor merely aiming for an aesthetic experience. He is investigating the very nature of the image in the moment of its emergence and disappearance in the instance where form and color instead of describing something become the subject themselves. This work stands as a station between reality and digital between substance and light between memory and oblivion.
Brand : Configurable
Designer : Felipe Pantone
