Lightboxes

I've been pretty jealous of some of the light box work my friends have been doing for Nation of Shopkeepers, I've helped out a little (watched while they made it) with the most recent piece for 'Iron Wagon' by Joe Torr and Jack Scales. This is the piece made my Jack Scales for No Bones, a weekly night at Nation of Shopkeepers...

They're simply made by putting together a light box in woodwork of your desired depth and size, it can be made of plywood, MDF and I'm sure a range of other wood. Then the perspex is cut, and the technique they used for visuals was cutting translucent vinyl by hand and sticking it on. Visually I just found these very appealing and I would kind of like the actual process of creating an exhibition piece to have some relevance to my concept. So I'm going to talk to the tutors in woodwork and see what can be done, I'd like to see what the possibilities would be with a more complex shape, perhaps a pentagon or hexagon, as I would need to engage (with the help of the people down there) in solving various little mathematical tasks to get it looking the way I want.