I was simply trying to create art using a 12″ long kitchen whisk in which the steel was coated with  red rubber. To me this has kind of an outer space look but the beauty of abstract art is that it takes on whatever meaning you interpret it as. I set up the shot in my studio in a pitch dark room using a black background. The whisk was illuminated with an on camera flash then the red swirls were light painted by hand with a small torch and a red slip on filter over the end. Jason D. Page is, sort of, the Godfather of Light Painting. His work…