Lightmap

“Lightmap” offers a new visual perspective on the weather over the course of one year. The installation captured every 5 minutes, from the 1st of January 2013 till the 31th of December 2013, a picture of the sky above Leuven (Belgium) and printed these images on small plexi cubes. The result is a gigantic map of the light and the weather, made out of 96 000 small photographs attached to 365 strings.

In his work, Spincemaille focuses on themes, that at first sight seem quite banal and ordinary like the horizon or the moon, and visualizes them in a new and surprising way. The weather is still conversation topic number one in our lives and a very defining factor of how we feel and behave. But we rarely have a clear visual image of it. By collecting the photographs of one year of light and weather, Spincemaille captures into one huge image, what otherwise remains imperceptible to our consciousness.