Tri-Axial Rotation of a Floating Volume of Light 1972

Ron Cooper created "Tri-Axial Rotation of a Floating Volume of Light" without specifying the date, or medium. This composition is simple, but there is a lot going on. We appear to be inside a room looking at an open doorway, but we are not given any information about what lies beyond. The lines are there to guide us, yet they suggest instability. Cooper was part of the Light and Space movement, a West Coast phenomenon that tested the viewers perception by distorting their sense of space. The room seems to be the result of technical drawing, and we know that Cooper also worked in the aerospace industry. In this light, the picture could be interpreted as a reflection on the changing labor market of postwar USA. It is a room with an ambiguous point of view. The volume of light seems to be floating freely. It creates a space between the grid and the door, between two-dimensional image and three-dimensional architecture. Cooper's work creates a personal and reflective dimension that goes beyond the purely formal language of geometry.