The fundamental driver in Chris’ work is the pursuit of sensory experience through image and form. All objects and imagery are interacted with through the sensorial input of light energy and physical sensation. In modern life we are bombarded with sensory input, we become numbed and we exist too often in the security of familiarity. Chris Levine’s work reaches for the new and the unexplored, inspiring a sense of wonder and the experience of beauty.

His work often utilises technology and the cross fertilisation of technique and talent by way of collaborative projects. He was for sometime involved in the design and production of holographic images and through this work developed a good working understanding of the laser – the purest form of light available to man. More recently he has developed a fascination with the medium of LED and the means to modulate pure colour and imagery that makes seeing truly an experience.

His work with the group Massive Attack applied both laser and LED in modes that have not really been seen before by a wide audience. Laser projected through random oscillating prisms, and LEDs that project imagery on to the viewer’s peripheral vision – what Levine refers to as Blipverts.

The technology is a means to an end, his work is about the beauty of light and the way we see and feel imagery. It is more a reflection on the fact that light makes a flower grow than the celebration of light amplification by the stimulated emission of radiation. L.A.S.E.R.