A giant jellyfish of mylar and helium floating high above the ground. (Photographs by Jarn Heil.)
Photograph takeen at aquarium for inspiration.
Wooden 1/7 scale template of made to create the shape for sections of the art installation.
Chelsea Heil holding the 1/7 scale plastic canopy. 
One of the remote controlled lighting units for the art installation.
A large scale outdoor video projection which makes use of the seemingly irresistible desire to cast one’s shadow in projected light (Video still by Lydia Moyer).
Light Being explores the relationship between movement and light, as perceived by the human eye and by the eye of the video camera. Three dancers perform both choreographed and improvised movement, while a video camera and projector simultaneously read and project their path through light, creating a mirage of fantastical images. In between performances, the video equipment will offer visitors the chance to create images with their own bodies and play with the feedback loop of light that will be projected on a backdrop. Former NASA engineer Dan Pierce designed the technical aspects of the dance, while veteran PVCC student choreographer Penny Chang created and dances in the piece. The music, which echoes the lighting with its own feedback loop, was composed and performed by Chang’s 8-year-old son, Jacob Chang-Rascle (Photograph by Jon Hasenfus).
Description: “Speck” should be recognizable by those that have weathered any serious hardship or depression. It’s different for me; more a conceptual piece, than one rendered in my usual style. (Photograph by Stacey Evans.)
BIO: Russell U. Richards is an artist with a studio at the McGuffey Art Center in Charlottesville. He has been drawing, painting, and making sculpture since he was three years old, finally deciding to become a full-time artist at age 26. Russell’s struggle with ulcerative colitis, and his fight to regain health, became the subject of his art book and memoir The Arts and Innards of Russell U. Richards! Recently Russell has turned his attention to filmmaking. His prints and paintings will be featured in a solo exhibition at Taubman Museum in Roanoke from November through January. For more information regarding his work, please visit http://www.russellrichards.com, http://www.50contemporaryart.com and http://taubmanmuseum.org.
This solar light-powered system converts the energy of the sun into useable chemical energy in the form of high quality, edible protein filaments. The system absorbs and stores solar energy during the long summer days. During the dark, cold winter months the system emits light as it repeatedly goes through a cycle of generating protein from light. This art installation is a collaboration that has come out of The Science & Art Project.
Description: L5-S1 is a monumental scale projection of a spinal X-ray experienced from an aerial view two stories up. The ground view reveals a powdered landscape and a shift in scale relative to the medication and pain associated with chronic injury to lower lumbar region (Photograph by Stacey Evans).
Description: Words mysteriously appear in a cloud of fog commanding viewers to undo and un-know their experience. This is a photograph of the second test of the art installation (Top photograph by James Yates. Bottom photograph by Stacey Evans).
