Trapped Colors/Released Colors (NFT)

Photography has been popular among scientific communities since the beginning. The introduction of the daguerreotype method by Arago in the French Academy of Sciences can serve as evidence for this claim. However, looking at the past, there is often a significant difference between scientific photography and artistic photography. Nowadays, with the inefficiency of boundaries, we witness more and more merging of different branches, including scientific and artistic photography. In such conditions, by striving to transcend scientific images to artistic photography field, we can discover some aspects of art institutes mechanisms.

Trapped Colors/Released Colors is a collection of transparent plastics placed between two polarized filters that, due to their physical properties, create fake colors. These colors are fake in the sense that they are not distinguishable by our visual perception itself. However, since we observe these plastics through a polarized filter – which is also Arago’s invention – colors appear that seem to be simultaneously trapped and released between the two filters: they are trapped because they exist only in the space between the two filters; and they are released because they only have the possibility to occur through this space.