Patrick Pochon the light painter

I do not know how famous Patrick Pochon is, but his work is amazing. He sees himself a light painter. He started light painting in 1992 and left other types of photography behind. " To me light painting is an expression of our true selves. It is about the trace we create and leave behind...... It enhances your imagination, wakes up your intuition and reflects who you are and where you are at. It is like a mirror of soul" 

I think it is another art form and like all other traditional art forms, artists found themselves through it and express themselves through it. The above images were created by a kind of free movement with a liteblade tool in his hand. It is done in completely darkness with the camera setting to long exposure. He call it light painting kata. (http://www.patrickthelightpainter.com/art/) There are videos on his website.

He has quite a few series of work.

"CAPTURING LUMINOUS THOUGHTS is a series based on the idea that all we think and feel directly influences everything around us. In this case, represented by subtle lights, floating around responding to our signals. "

"The PORTALS AND DIMENSIONS series is an artistic representation of the other layers of reality and their possibilities."

The RADIANT LIGHT series is questioning what we can’t see, from the inner to the outer world, like the shape of sounds, all sorts of energies, vibrations or feelings or even the photons our bodies emit. What does it all look like?

THE LIGHT PAINTING SCULPTURES series demonstrates the four dimensions of painting with light, giving it sculptural qualities.

The tools he uses are quite expensive. I don's think I can try something like this. But it is always good to see something you never know before. Light is normally what we see in our daily life. But scientifically most people know very little about light. When I did my experiment of photographing light, I got a big surprise when I saw the images. Camera make us see something which our eyes won't be able to see. The speed of light is the fastest speed human ever know so far. Camera may only capture the very tiny trace it left but big enough to give everybody a "Wow".  Patrick said light is a language as old as universe. The art of light painting has depth and meaning beyond we now understand about life and reality. This is maybe true. I believe he must found himself in this art form and there are so many things which are unknown to human beings.