Light art appears to walk a delicate balance between something that can easily become a novelty effect of sorts and a finely tuned artistic style. Many people are aware of simplistic light art sculptures, including the style of “Light Painting” “light graffiti” but most of these attempts at light art seem to fall short of the full potential of the medium. Because LAPP-PRO used light as a medium, it causes the final project to exist only in a small variety of photography, be it a single frame or many in sequential order to create a stop motion animated effect. This is simply due to the fact that our eyes cannot be adjusted the same way a camera can, thus we cannot see this form of art unaided. This in turn raises questions about what exists that our eyes cannot see and what exactly we hold to be true or “real”. The fact that the duo uses no programmed effects in their work adds to the surreal quality their work holds.

Because the art requires an individual (or individuals) to actually move the light around, this form of art takes on a performance quality. This is not to say that LAPP directly falls into the traditional definition of performance art, but rather it takes a large part of performance and incorporates it into both the process and end result of LAPP-PRO’s art. In a way this allows Lapp-pro to continue to use performance in their work, but without many of the cliché elements that befalls much of performance art.

As often as one might come across one form or another of LAPP, LAPP-PRO definitely holds the title of light art champions. Their use of composition, color and well, light, have been blended together to create astonishing works of unique art that stand out it stark contrast to the rest of the photography world.