In this work, James Clar uses waves of light to create an environment that stimulates creativity and meditation. Light travels down the corridor at 100 Hz per second, which is a wavelength of just under 3 metres. As you pass through the light, your viewing distance is obscured, sliced into even sections. This creates a visual mantra: a repeated series of waves, which wash over you in increasing amplitude.

110 Hz is known as the ‘human pitch’. Buddhist and Hindu mantras are often chanted in the same frequency, while archeologists have discovered the use of the frequency to induce trance states in many cultures. Clar is particularly interested in how 110 Hz resonance can enhance the activity of the right brain, which is the centre for art, spirituality, emotion and imagination.

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Exhibited: "Thin Air", The Beams, London, March 2023