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Successful light painting is essentially an "interpretive performance". It's a performance because the artist is moving through time and space capturing a specific series of actions that are carefully dictated by technical as well as creative guidelines. It's a truly unrepeatable sequence of movements that manifest an image document of actions singular to those brief moments of creation. It marks our creative essence in every picture. It marks our ability for creative action that contains within it an intangible. It marks the fact that we can conceive of and immediately act on concepts innately unquantifiable, yet physically, technically, and artistically expressible in a way that has the viewer sharing in a unique performance. When the viewer imagines what they think the process is to make these pictures they are imagining and "seeing" the performance of the artist in their minds eye. This happens while also experiencing a directly emotional response, and the combination of imagining the process and feeling the feeling creates a synergistic experience for the viewer. They are sharing in the performance that happened over time, seeing it, feeling it, watching it from a single still picture.
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