Okay next - adding the light... So these are quite beautiful... Its also very interesting that some researchers are focused in recreating caustics in the field of computer graphics. Henrik Wann Jensen is an associate professor at the University of California at San Diego, where he is working in the computer graphics lab..

I talked to Margaret and Kristen about process and how ideas form and spent a day working on a couple ideas - just that - not really settled yet. So the first is something that I keep tinkering with... lights and dialogues. I bumped into work by the artist Andrea Dezso (look here) and it really affected me. So I started messing about with little pictures of people illuminated with led's.

This is a much simpler little habitat. I made it using a small metal box with a glass top. There's a light inside. The tissue paper made the light glow nicely. I also used green paper to make plant-shaped silhouettes and sequins in the shape of shells to reflect light from outside the box. = Small habitat made with lidded box, tissue paper, sequins, and a colored light. I could see making a group of these that reacted differently to changes in the light in the room.