Go Toward the Lights

The following is a piece written by local artist Dianna Vosburg about her collaboration with a Holliston High art class to create "The Lights Fantastic," an exhibit using phosphorescent paint and ultraviolet lights. Vosburg's studio is in the Holliston Mill on Water St.

During the month of February, Doug Lack's ART 1 class at worked with a visiting artist Dianna Vosburg to create a collaborative installation project in the school's art gallery: The Lights Fantastic.

Using phosphorescent paint, the students filled wall panels with quotes that they chose about light, written in glow paint. They also created a swarm of "fireflies," small points of glow painted forms that hang from the ceiling. On the floor at one end of the gallery, students installed a sculptural display of glow-painted lightbulb forms, exploring the idea of gathering light.

The exhibit contained an interactive piece, a glow-painted panel on which gallery visitors could "draw with light" using a near UV laser light to draw in the glow panel.

Hanging in the center of the room, beautifully eccentric chandeliers project their eerie light. These were made by small groups of students or as individual projects, and the gallery displays two other individual paintings, including a box jelly fish painted on layers of clear plastic.