As the work has been progressing, ideas on the role of light has been increasingly in the back of my mind.

I was introduced to the work of Conrad Shawcross (thank you Taylor), who uses light and shadows within his installation pieces.

And through this sort of research and thinking process, I realised. Without light we wouldn't be able to understand the static seen 3D world that we inhabit. It's reduced to other senses of taste, smell, touch, balance, hearing. Shadows are after all the reference point for our understanding of volume and depth. (Unless you start thinking about how objects move relationally to each other when you're moving past them - like looking into scenery from a train window for example - but that's not what I'm thinking about in this very idea).

But yeah. Shadows are a big deal. So much, I thought I'd try and make some, because I too, want my work to look as awesome as Conrad Shawcross'. Here's a box I've panelled with my print template designs and some fabric:

Right now it's not up to the shadow standard I was after (I need some stronger lights!), but I feel like this was a helpful way of taking the prints into the next dimension.