Over Thanksgiving Break, I found an artist named Pierre Le Hors who did a book called Firework Studies that are nothing more than just full page images of black & white fireworks. I immediately started going through some of my own firework images and try to create the same effect. I fell in love with the simple beauty of the firework shot. For my final project I wanted to work with the shots of my own and incorporate them with a construction I came up with in my Screenprinting class.
I want to take several prints, each with a different moment in the explosion of a firework and on a transparent/semi-transparent paper, and layer them in front of each other hanging from a box (see last image on post). This will then be backlight with a light in the box and hung from the wall. The visual idea is that when you look back into it you can see the firework slowly begin to erupt.
