“Two Halves Leave a Hole”
Have you ever dropped a glass or broken a dish and wondered what’s physically happening in that split second when it shatters?
That’s the question posed by Dan Phakos ’11 in “Slow Motion,” a photographic exhibit opening today, Jan. 8, in the Wikoff Student Gallery.
Each of the nine images in the show was created in a controlled environment where the sound of the impact triggered a strobe light, which illuminated the action for a fraction of second – “long enough to capture the image on film,” Phakos wrote in his artist’s statement.
“The result is perfectly frozen motion of an object being broken apart; a sight too fast to be captured by the human eye.”
Phakos is a biochemistry major with a minor in visual arts.
“With a body of work that melds science and art,” he said, “I enjoy bringing emotion to objects that are so often taken for granted.”
“Slow Motion” is co-sponsored by the departments of Physics and Visual Arts. It runs through March 2.