Clare Lymer

My work is centered on the properties and behaviours of light. Having previously studied Physics, my focus on light is also informed by an interest in the scientific, with particular awareness of how we view sunlight as a past light in our present moment. We interpret light rather than see it; my work engages with this idea and the paradoxes it creates. I am interested in the essential qualities of light in image making but also it’s destructive qualities. It is only when light reflects or behaves in a peculiar way that we become aware of it’s presence as more than illumination. It’s unpredictable characteristics are then capable of both blinding or enlightening, veiling or unveiling, clarifying or mystifying. My images explore photography’s dependence on light as a transparent medium as well as light’s lack of means to manifest itself independently of matter. My current work with ley lines harnesses sunlight to make the invisible visible.