Shadow is often perceived as negative, and light as positive, yet shadow contains far more spatial and geometric information about the world around than light itself. It is mostly perceived as a 2D projection, but in fact, it is very 3D in essence. Stephen Hawking said in his book “Brief Answers to the Big Questions” the information contained in a blackhole cannot be traced back to its input, it is like burning a newspaper, the ash technically holds all the information once contained in that newspaper, but retrieving what it said word by word is impossible. Shadow is like a blackhole

Imagine if it was possible to reconstruct geometry out of shadow, to volumize shadow to turn shadow itself into geometry. RAYIN’EI is an attempt to volumize shadow, an architectural reconstruction of three-dimensional memories and invisible geometries contained in the shadows of the Louvre’s iconic Dome. RAYIN’EI imagines shadow as the solid rather than void, the positive rather than negative. Reading “rainy” RAYIN’EI reimagines the Dome’s “rain of light” as the “rain of shadow”. The installation lofts the angular canopy geometry into the flowing curvilinear light patches projected onto the ground. From logic and framework to lyricism and fluidity, RAYIN’EI traces the unseen volume between these two states