How light interacts with space(refraction)

Using the bowl as my space, I have been experimenting with refraction of light through the use of water.  And in the process of these experimentation's I have come to create the images below:

photo no flash:shinning light from a projector through an upside-down unusually shaped bowl, onto white paper

photo with flash

glass reflecting light

Don't yet know how to transfer the photos that I have altered and fixed through the software Picasa, so the image you see here is not very clear, but on the paper in the background there is an accidental image of a cup and saucer. I love the idea of these accidental images and would like to experiment with creating images like this.

Below: I made a video which I can not seem to upload right now.  In it I was experimenting with light and refraction and how it interacts with space by using different media. I did this by capturing on video the images that where created from shinning light rays through a water filled thin glass bowl ,adding in colour, a crystal and some glitter.

 

Investigation of how white surfaces reflect light.

The light image that was created I coloured in with pastels.

Investigation of how black surfaces absorbs light.

I coloured in the image reflected, or absorbed its hard for me to say, on the paper making a non permanent into something more permanent

I used a light under the bowl as well as the projector

Here is an image of the same coloured water in a thick glass bowl. The images above and below look more of a silhouette than the previous images created using the thin glass bowl, and they also loose the vibrancy of colour.

conclusion: the thicker the glass the less transparency is achieved, as light rays do not pass through at the same speed. 

I turned the bowl right side up and refilled it with the coloured orange water creating a different image

I raised the coloured water level

Below: I made a video which I can not seem to upload right now.

In the large coloured-water filled bowl, I placed a small thick glass water filled bowl. 

Aim: to investigate the movement of light through different densities, and how the light would disperse through the thin glass and around the thicker glass onto the surface. In the video i tried to dramatise this by adding blue paint.

A STUDY of LIGHT and PHOTOGRAPHY

Capturing light rays and reflections.

The glissining of light reflections on water.

light reflection

looking at light 

The contrast of light in the reflective surface against a true space.

Experimenting with an installation piece I made on the 5 senses

Peoples interaction with my installation piece didn't work the way I wanted it to, 

I had an idea of setting up my installation which would encourage the audience to interact with it. if it worked out to my ideal it would have been laid out on a table in the order of sound,smell, taste touch and sight to heighten the experience, with an option of using a blindfold and headphones to isolate each of the sense for those who wanted to interact with the installation. The installation didn't work the way i envisioned it because i didn't get the time or the space to work with it.

Instead mainly without blindfolds or earphones people interacted randomly with the five sense pieces.

inside my taste box

sensing smell

inside my smell bow

inside my vision box

inside my touch box

It did not work the way I had expected but that really is how life works and that;s ok with me. I really enjoyed working on this first phase of the project and people seemed to enjoy interacting with it too. So I have learnt from this experience that not only will not everyone want to interact with my work, but to expected the unexpected.
From here, i plan to investigate light and how it interacts and can alter a space.