Horizon of Day and Night
Horizon of Day and Night
Horizon of Day and Night
Horizon of Day and Night
Horizon of Day and Night
Horizon of Day and Night
Horizon of Day and Night

Horizon of Day and Night


Hand-cut laminated optical glass, low-iron glass, steel base.

2020

9 x 150-200cm x 40-50cm x 30-40cm

Prismic glass monoliths point to the horizonal rising and setting of the sun (at present and at winter and summer solstices); the south and north Polaris; and the setting of Venus, the light-bringer that connects the horizons of east and west to the celestial sky. Informed through geometric surveys of megalithic stone circles, these monoliths are pillars of light that create a clockwork of optical projections, orienting our presence in light, space and deep-time. The orientation of the monoliths (aligned so as to reveal the ‘light of the place’ corresponding to geo-cosmic cycles) and their colours (with spectroscopic qualities inspired by geological compositions) combine to reveal the 'spectral fingerprint' of the site. The spectral fingerprint of a place deals with its deep time: the light of its geological and cosmological past, interfaced by the elemental and cosmo-technical media that shape the now: Now-ness is an inter-activity.