Light Forms | Digital Video Artwork

Light Forms 11 08 25

Artist Statement by Gregory Beylerian

“Light Forms” emerges from one of my earliest and most cherished memories, a light sculpture that illuminated my childhood home. It was a simple white cube, wall-mounted, handcrafted from thin layers of wood with a surprising depth. Within it, hidden light sources dissolved from one color to another, creating an atmosphere unlike anything else. Even now, I can recall how that gentle shifting of light transformed the space and my perception of it. It felt alive, dimensional not only in form but in consciousness, as though it opened a portal into another reality.

The simplicity of its construction belied its profound impact. It was, in a sense, my first encounter with the power of light as an emotional and spiritual force. The only artist whose work later evoked a similar resonance for me in this way was James Turrell, whose art of light touches the ineffable, the realm where perception meets transcendence.

“Light Forms” is a continuation of that discovery. It explores light not merely as a visual phenomenon, but as a universal intelligence, the very essence of consciousness itself. Science still cannot define the mystery of consciousness and light, yet mystics throughout time have pointed to it as a bridge between the material and the divine. Light as messenger that travels from the heart of stars, across the vastness of space, to awaken awareness within us. It illuminates not only our surroundings but our imagination, revealing that illumination and understanding are, in truth, one and the same.

For millennia, humanity lived by the fire’s glow, the primal warmth of light born from combustion. Only recently have we harnessed light through electricity, transforming it into something we plug into the wall. Yet its sacred quality remains unchanged. When we attune to light’s frequency, the warmth of the sun, the fire’s burn upon our skin, the radiance that moves through all life, we are reminded that light itself is love in motion.

Light Forms honors this continuum. It is a reverence to light as both form and formlessness, science and spirit, the source from which all creation flows. It invites us to see light not as an object, but as the teacher, the bridge, and the eternal revelation of what it means to be truly enlightened.

Original Sound Composition: Gregory Beylerian