Curator

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Charles Ross studied Mathematics at UC Berkeley in the 60s while discovering his passion for making art.
Ross sources sunlight and starlight to produce and inspire his artworks. Using prisms to beam light’s spectrum into architectural spaces, he also employs lenses to focus and converge burning rays on surfaces.

Solar Burn in the time it takes sunlight to reach the Earth 1/30/77

Why we like it:
• The process, like the medium is simple. The juxtaposition and repetition create an obsessive observation of the phenomenon.
• The grid is a tool that helps present content in a clear and meaningful way. By removing visual distinction, the grid helps the viewer focus. The essential differences and relationships created throughout the visual information become narration. The artist removes specifics of individual pieces and encourage the viewers to focus on the essential differences, and the repetition of the process.
• The Sun is 150 million km away from our planet Earth. Light travels at 300,000 km/s. It took 500 seconds, or 8 minutes and 33 seconds for the light to travel and come burn the paper.
• The sun is drawing a portrait of itself.

Charles Ross’s work was brought to our attention by one of the many amazing users of Curator, Jeronimo Rosales @JeronimoRosales

Curator has been updated for iOS 9 and supports Multi-tasking, Spotlight search and many other new features.
We keep working hard at making Curator even better, here’s what’s new in 3.2

• Multi-Tasking (on supported devices) allows you to open Curator alongside other apps to easily copy and paste images and text.
• Spotlight search. Swipe down on your home screen to bring up the search menu; your Curator boards will show up and can be opened in the app.

We love to hear your feedback so please send email to us at feedback@curator.co or on Twitter @Curator. If you like Curator we also appreciate if you leave a nice review on the App Store, it really helps!

Curator Journal explores the creative processes of amazing artists and designers. How do they gather inspiration and references, how does visual thinking take place behind the scenes of the finished projects?
We make collaborative boards in Curator to interact with people behind the projects and the results are published in real time from the app.

The first issue of Curator Journal is a deep dive into some exhibitions and the designers’ Creative Process during London Design Festival at Brompton Design District.