Light collage

"Peaceable Kingdom" by Austine Wood Comarow

Austine Wood Comarow started working in her original polarized light art medium in 1967.
She creates interactive and kinetic or morphing figurative images using a combination of polarized filters and special birefringent materials. When displayed in special kinetic light boxes they change in ways invocative of passing time: a sun setting, seasons change, people age.
The remarkable art requires cutting thousands of tiny pieces of clear cellulose and other optically active materials and laminating them onto a clear matrix such as acrylic or glass (polarized light collage). The resulting images can be displayed in motorized light boxes so they continually change, or in an interactive format so the viewer activates the image with a polarizing viewer.