Artwork, Sarah Meyohas. Performers, Jacob Jonas the Company
Truth Arrives in Slanted Beams,
In collaboration with Sarah Meyohas, 2025
From the Artist:
Sarah Meyohas’ sublime and seductive imagery blends analog and digital technologies to illuminate the systems shaping contemporary society. As an artist, inventor, and economist, she investigates the aesthetic and creative potential within science and technology, driven by humanity’s fascination with optics and perception.
Her immersive installation showcases “caustics,” light patterns formed by the refraction or reflection of light through curved surfaces. While this optical effect often occurs naturally, such as at the bottom of a swimming pool, Meyohas transforms it, using innovative light-shaping technology enabling visitors to project sunlight onto a ribbon-like structure cascading across the desert floor.
The installation recalls ancient timekeeping technology like sundials and pays homage to 20th-century land art…
Photographing Truth Arrives in Slanted Beams meant listening more than documenting—moving through the desert with a large handful of dancers and a concrete ribbon unfurling across the sand. In a landscape that could be anything, I searched for frames where structure, movement, and light met—moments where the choreography, the landscape, and the form briefly aligned, and the story could be held, if only for a moment of something.
Dancing in the Moonlight
Under the full moon, the desert was bright to the film crew’s sensors—but through my viewfinder, nearly black. Focusing was guesswork. Every frame had to be deliberate, shaped by feel more than sight. Moonlight casts a strange, suspended mood—nothing in daylight comes close. Even with long exposures, something in the image tells us we’re not in ordinary time.
