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Created during Smith’s artist residency at the Palm Springs Art Museum, Aperture marks Smith’s first use of colored light via LED lighting and the beginning of his interest in controlled pace of experience and change. Aperture is a topography of undulating form and shifting color, structurally composed of eight pure geometric forms (circle, square, arc, trapezoid, ellipse, triangle, parallelogram, and rectangle). Each focused geometric form shifts through its own spectrum of color as the overall topography shifts as a united hue. From afar, these two shifting zones of color appear both as gradients and as singular, united colors. Up close, within the intimate space of projected color and geometry, singular colors separate into two, revealing the mixture of color across the translucent white acrylic’s face and edge. As the orchestration of color slowly shifts between warm and cool, the work appears to breathe, seemingly floating away from or pushing into the wall.
