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Reuben Wu

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THE QUIET BURN – PREMIERING AT PARIS PHOTO 2025 Nov 12-16
Night canyon landscape with glowing rings floating above rock formations under a starry sky, capturing the surreal vision of a fine artist.
↳VIEW ELEMENTS MAGAZINE NOVEMBER
A cable car travels over snowy mountains at sunset, with a glowing circle of light below—created by a drone light painting—captured perfectly by a fine artist.
↳VIEW “SKYWAY MONTE BIANCO”
↳VIEW “OSCILLATIONS”
Large tree at night with glowing drone light art trails; text reads VITAL OUR IRREPLACEABLE EARTH.
VITAL: Our Irreplaceable Earth, showing at the Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, Virginia
A futuristic glowing ring floats on cracked salt flats at sunset, captured in a fine artist’s style under a dark sky, with the distant horizon softly illuminated.
↳ VIEW “FIELD OF INFINITY”
A glowing vertical sheet of light, created with drone light painting, stands on a dark beach under a starry sky with green auroras.
A long-exposure shot captures futuristic white drone light art on a beach, set against green aurora and a starry nighttime landscape photography scene.
A glowing white light sheet floats above calm water, captured in a futuristic nighttime landscape photography scene, with a green aurora and starry sky illuminating the background.
↳ VIEW “SIREN“
A lone person walks in snowy mountains at night, with a glowing vertical light in the distance, capturing the mystery of nighttime landscape photography.
↳VIEW “SKYWAY MONTE BIANCO”
A neon green SUV on a rocky terrain at night, surrounded by futuristic streaks created with drone light painting, with mountains rising in the background.
↳VIEW “MERCEDES BENZ”
↳VIEW “BILLENNIUM”
↳ VIEW “THIN PLACES”
↳ VIEW “AN IRRESISTIBLE FORCE” ON SOTHEBY’S
The full moon rises over distant mountains and a field of solar panels at sunset, as a photographer captures the scene enriched by mesmerizing drone light painting.
↳ VIEW “CRESCENT DUNES”
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This is a method I’ve developed to display animated art, which evolved from my own fine art print practice and experimentation in projection mapping. It involves projecting animations onto a fine art print substrate, allowing the moving image to integrate seamlessly with the printed image and physical presence of the framed piece. Unlike AR prints that require phone filters or screens, this technique creates a screenless, dynamic artwork visible to the naked eye, merging digital motion with the tactile qualities of a traditional print. It’s a way of extending my light-based work beyond photography, into something that exists between the physical and the ephemeral.

↳ PHYSICAL INSTALLATION OF “AN ELECTRIC STORM”

A dark, cloudy landscape with a faint red-orange sun setting on the distant horizon, reminiscent of nighttime landscape photography by a fine artist.
↳ VIEW “AN UNCOMMON PLACE”
Two women stand by a brick wall and faded clock, with the photo partially burned on the left side—a striking composition by a skilled photographer.
↳ VIEW “BAND ON THE RUN”“
 
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