There are things that can’t be seen by the naked eye. There is a parallel world that functions into our subconscious mind. This is the concept that director Mako Miyamoto wants to convey in his solo show ‘Spectral Divide’. It tackles the things that can’t be seen yet it continuous to live and breathe in the same world we occupy.
Not only does the film perfectly addresses the concept but it also possess an uncanny color filter. The film was shot with a special camera that exclusively captures the infrared spectrum of light. As a result, the orange and teal color grading played a major role in creating the whole atmosphere of the video. It gives the short film that ‘another world’ vibe. The visual masterpiece is a fusion between post apocalyptic and retrofuture.
“The Spectral Divide explores the spaces that surround us but lie outside of our awareness, brushing past us like waves in the dark, a ghost caught in the frame between light and shadow.
The infrared world exists at wavelengths that are longer than those of visible light, just beyond deep red in the light spectrum. What we consider color and light are in fact visible radiation; increasing in temperature from violet, the coolest, to deep red, the warmest. Infrared radiation is warmer still; the body can feel and react to it, but is unable to perceive it with the human eye.
This radiation has the ability to penetrate the skin and reveal abnormalities, things that shift, change, or grow unseen within a body or environment. The work in this exhibition explores the spectral bodies that may exist beyond our knowing, an empire of lost senses wandering just below the skin of this world, bathed in a sea of infrared radiation.”
— Mako Miyamoto
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Spectral Divide © Mako Miyamoto
