Fred Eerdekens’ shadow art goes far beyond putting some shapes on the wall. Relying on both elaborate arrangements of objects (including cereal boxes and trees) and the carefully controlled lighting of art galleries, he builds messages that appear very clearly at certain angles. Eerdekens has been working for decades on playing with light and shadow, and many of his pieces are collected on his site — photographed, obviously, from the right perspective.
Artist Fred Eerdekens writes with shadows
is a senior tech and policy editor focused on online platforms and free expression. Adi has covered virtual and augmented reality, the history of computing, and more for The Verge since 2011.
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