When light bends, so does our understanding of the world. When you step into Tiffany Wyse-Fisher’s exhibition, you don’t just look at light, you experience it. Wyse-Fisher is the assistant professor of art at Goshen College. Her work is on display in the Hershberger Art Gallery until Nov. 9.
Wyse-Fisher’s exhibition is inspired by illumination, reflection, refraction and perception. “I’m inspired by light as a photographer. How you use, manipulate and play with light,” she said.She went on to talk about how her parents taught her to notice light as a child. “If there was a ray of light coming through a cloud, my parents would point it out to me.” Wyse-Fisher said she was always “really mesmerized” by dust floating through a ray of light.
Her piece titled “Memory Jar” consists of Wyse-Fisher’s childhood photographs with faces crossed out. “The faces are mine. Those memories only exist because I was there,” she said.
When talking about light and the feelings it evokes in people, she said it “influences emotion differently for everyone.”
Wyse-Fisher spoke about how she was scared of the dark, which made her have “all sorts of superstitions.”
With this exhibition, Wyse-Fisher hopes visitors will consider and notice how they interact with light more. She added, “I don’t have a particular emotion I want them to feel, but an experience.”
