Adam Frelin

Shine Your Light

single-channel video
3-minutes
2006

Having worked on projects with mirrors before, they have become a reoccurring element in my visual vocabulary. What started out as an experiment resulted in something unexpectedly poetic: try to shine the light from a lighthouse back onto itself. In the video two men wander towards the ocean with spools of string and a small mirror attached to a helium-filled weather balloon. They carry it across the breakwater towards a lighthouse on a windy night. Through great effort the men attempt to position the floating mirror in front of the revolving light. On a few, rare occasions they actually manage catch the lighthouse's light in the mirror, casting an imperceptible amount of it back onto its source.