Shadow Play is a video of a performance piece by Ed Pien that EPITOMIZES his continued fascination with light, shadow, movement and transformation. In this piece Pien incorporates his own body, manipulating lights, cutouts, ropes and simple props creating a cinematic experience that is other-worldly. Ghostly shadows and mysterious beams of light suspend disbelief while everyday objects become animated entities.

Utilizing tropes of the shadow theatre, Pien achieves a poetic and mesmerizing world that dissolves the boundary between reality and illusion. Both his body and the set transform as he moves through the installation, slipping seamlessly, between two-dimensional and three-dimension realms.