LEDs are useful for a thousand things, but no one uses them quite as incredibly as Leo Villareal, an American artist who combines thousands of the little lights to make some seriously otherworldly scenes.
https://gizmodo.com/the-universe-will-never-cease-to-amaze-me-5605433
You may remember Villareal for his 40,000 LED hyperspace tunnel at the National Gallery of Art. It remains the closest you’ll ever get to light speed.
https://gizmodo.com/tunnel-with-40-000-leds-is-the-closest-youll-ever-get-t-5159735
But the New Mexico native will be displaying all manner of technologically-minded works at his upcoming exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art, beginning August 21. Here he is talking about his process:
See, second grade class—I told you my LA Gears were the space shoes of the future. [SJ Museum of Art]
