kata lightblade

ABOUT

This journey began in Montreal Canada in 2011 when light painter Patrick Rochon decided to make 3-dimensional light painting tools that would make voluminous traces of light. It took two more years to name the tools, open an online store, and share his discovery with the light-painting community worldwide. So in 2013, Liteblade® was officially born.

Since then, light blades have been spreading everywhere, influencing many by creating this new culture and becoming one of the main basic tools for light painters globally.

To quote Sergey B. Churkin, head of the Light Painting World Alliance, "Patrick has made a marvellous impact on the light painting world through the creation of his signature light painting tools, “Liteblades”. Light painters have shown a radical interest in these quality tools, as almost every 2nd light painting image in the world is created using his innovative technology". https://liteblades.com/

Light-painting started out as a very DIY genre of photography. Using flashlights, steel wool, sparks, LEDs, rope lights and many amalgamations of all of the above, photographers have created some interesting contraptions to spice up their work.

And now, well-known Montreal-base light painter Patrick Rochon (who we’ve featured a number of times) has set out to create a contraption of his very own. https://petapixel.com/2014/07/08/liteblades-unique-new-light-painting-contraption-long-exposure-lovers/

My parts: what I find interesting about these tools for light painting is not just how they look, but in the way they were constructed, who constructed them and the function of each one. I find them all so interesting and inspiring to me as a light painter. The many shapes and designs that come from each one is beautify interesting and captivating to the public eye.

The creator of these tools Patrick Rochon had two years to think about the way in how they would be used and what shapes would come from them with a number of testing. I find this interesting as I too create my own light tools, but where he has a number of shapes I have chosen to stick with the idea of using light sabers to create my own style of light painting. I chose this style due to my interest within sic-fi and of the universe that we live in. I have been inspired but cosmic horror as well as sci-fi and wanted to create works of cosmic art that fitted into that style of the unknown and of the mysterious.

My work is a mix of H.P Lovecrafts books with his abstract gods and of Patrick Rochons style of light painting within the use of his body and the way in how he creates the work he does.