Artwork description: Holos
Stained Glass of the 21st Century
Holographic stained glass diptych Holos deals with the theme of creation of the world and its design was established in collaboration with artificial intelligence. Its morphology is based on Gothic rosettes and Art Nouveau floral ornaments. The piece was inspired by the third day of creation of the world according to the Bible, when the first plants, their seeds and fruits were created.
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Holos is the first work of art in the world to combine stained glass with holography.
The holographic image is recorded on a piece of glass by the interference of a laser beam light that is reflected from a real object behind the glass.
Two light waves interfere on the glass plate and thus create an illusion of a 3D object that was once present behind the flat glass.
The plants recorded on the glass rosettes were generated by the artificial intelligence and taken to life by the technology of 3D printing to be recorded by the laser.
In my master’s thesis I explore the connections between the scientific and religious attitude towards world understanding and interpretation. These two disciplines supplement the way how art comprehends the reality.
This work should reinforce the perception of these disciplines not as contradictory but mutually complementary.
I react to the outcome of the theoretical research in the form of stained glass medium which has a long tradition of perceiving religious images since being used in medieval cathedrals.
I use this technique stripped of its church connotations in a new form of holographic stained glass based on the latest technological procedures.
The holograms are shown thanks to the spotlight shining from the front, not from behind as is usual for stained glass. The spotlight mimics the position of laser light and thus reconstructs the object beam that is complementary to the laser beam. This is the reason why are able to see the holograms.
Holos connects the past with the future.