Floating Cube Illusion Spearheads Alternative Landscape Scenery

Floating Cube in woods with lit up red trees

These alluring images were created by 26 year-old French-Canadian photographer, Benoit Paille. After becoming a professional, Paille has held exhibitions in Canada, Japan, L.A, Barcelona, Moscow, Ukraine and Paris:

Paille: I was interested in the introduction of a man-made object in an outdoor setting, a luminous square, a human element that forms a relationship with nature and helps it to be reborn. From this I feel a kind of poetry blossoms, linked to the presence of this regular shape, like a recurrent canvas that symbolically references creation, the blank page, the empty space that needs to be inhabited.

Cune lighting up the tall grass

Gallery of Floating Cube Illusion imagery

Floating Cube in snow topped trees

Floating Cube in woods in dark

Floating Cube in snow again

Floating Cube in tall trees

Floating Cube in waters edge

Floating Cube in urban setting

Floating Cube in long grass

Floating Cube in trees again

Floating Cube in snowy trees

Floating Cube in snowy scene

Floating Cube in forest at night

Floating Cube in garden

Floating Cube in snow

Floating Cube in woodeland

Floating Cube near water

Floating Cube in mountains

This series germinated in my head during the Christmas season 2011. I pictured myself hanging out decorations in weird places. My first experiment was a string of 100 Christmas lights of one metre square. I started shooting this light installation in the nearby forest, and I realised that I would use this method to investigate the notion of landscape.

I later changed the installation into a light plastic square, 1x1m per 5cm, holding 300 LED lights linked to a dimmer. I hang it using fishing lines tied to trees. The exposure times for these images vary from 30 seconds to 4 minutes.

I was interested in the introduction of a man-made object in an outdoor setting, a luminous square, a human element that forms a relationship with nature and helps it to be reborn. From this I feel a kind of poetry blossoms, linked to the presence of this regular shape, like a recurrent canvas that symbolically references creation, the blank page, the empty space that needs to be inhabited… [read more].

Further Information // “Floating Cube Illusion Spearheads Alternative Landscape Scenery” // All the images shown within this post are [Creative Commons] © Copyright Benoit Paillé. Please visit her profile for more fantastic work, and see the original display of this work here.

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