Here on the Northern California coast, the days usually start off cool and grey, and then, if we’re lucky, the sun and blue skies make an appearance for the afternoon.  Once the light begins to beam through the windows and cast long shadows, the world seems to take on a completely different character.  In her work, artist Stephanie Pierce explores the phenomenon on light and its effect on our perceptions.

 

Through the windows, the sunlight comes pouring through, seen in Pierce’s paintings as fluttering fragments of color, whipping in and distorting the scene light so many butterflies emerging simultaneously from their dark cocoons.  Shadows shift as the light moves and we understand that within light is the power to create movement– that nothing is truly static, all things changing as our perceptions alter.

To see more of Stephanie Pierce‘s work, please visit her website.

All images are via the artist’s website.  Artist found via Booooooom!