Most blue
Project from the second year of the Academy of Arts Utrecht, 2020
In the project Most Blue, I seek the moment when almost all light disappears. I play with the light, the color temperature and the symbolism to mimic moonlight itself. By mimicking light, I allow the viewer to experience something different from what has occurred.
In our eye, cones distinguish color and contrast and rods process light and dark. In daylight, the color-sensitive cones, which are most sensitive to yellow light, determine color. When illuminance decreases, the light-sensitive rods, which are most sensitive to blue light, begin to determine color. This is called the purkinje effect. So just before you see nothing at all, you see blue to the maximum.