The Spectral Divide: Short Film & Photography Series by Mako Miyamoto

‘The Spectral Divide’ is the title of a solo show by Portland-based director Mako Miyamoto. The exhibition comprised of photography as well as an accompanying short film inspired by an infrared world.

“The Spectral Divide explores the spaces that surround us but lie outside of our awareness, brushing past us like waves in the dark, a ghost caught in the frame between light and shadow.

The infrared world exists at wavelengths that are longer than those of visible light, just beyond deep red in the light spectrum. What we consider color and light are in fact visible radiation; increasing in temperature from violet, the coolest, to deep red, the warmest. Infrared radiation is warmer still; the body can feel and react to it, but is unable to perceive it with the human eye.

This radiation has the ability to penetrate the skin and reveal abnormalities, things that shift, change, or grow unseen within a body or environment. The work in this exhibition explores the spectral bodies that may exist beyond our knowing, an empire of lost senses wandering just below the skin of this world, bathed in a sea of infrared radiation.”

— Mako Miyamoto

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