Spectrums of Light 2022 | The Viewing Room Art Gallery Pretoria

"The electromagnetic spectrum describes all kinds of light, including those the human eye cannot see. In fact, most of the light in the universe is invisible to our eyes. The light we can see, made up of the individual colours of the rainbow, represents only a very small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. Other types of light include radio waves, microwaves, infrared radiation, ultraviolet rays, X-rays, and gamma rays-all of which are imperceptible to human eyes."

There are seven types of electromagnetic waves. In my solo exhibition 'Spectrums of light,' I have included television, radar, and aura light. My choice to add aura light is because we, as humans, also emit light.

It is my belief that science, art, and faith are all correlated. According to Hebrews 11:1, it states: "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."

The definition of faith to which I am referring and as defined by the Oxford Dictionary is to have: "Complete trust or confidence in someone or something."

In seeking to discover what lies beyond the unknown, scientists not only have faith in themselves but also faith in their experiments and theories. It is that kind of faith that has led to the discovery of all the different light wavelengths and frequencies which are imperceptible to human eyes.

Without their tenacious faith, they would not have been able to create the highly sophisticated and technologically advanced machines that make visible to us the light that is otherwise invisible to the naked eye.

I think that in the same way, when artists create their artworks, nobody can see what the artist is thinking or imagining, either consciously or subconsciously. It's only when the artist steps away from a finished piece of work that that which is unseen in his or her mind becomes visible. Like scientists, artists need to have faith, hope, and tenacity to arrive at work nurtured and wrestled with in their minds, but executed within the visible realm of light. That is what I have striven to do in the work I have produced for this exhibition.