“Planet”
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- Planet
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‘Planet’ focuses on the interplay between water, air, and light. The water-filled sphere acts as a lens, a light-focusing tool – a means of shifting perception and understanding. Air bubbles disturb its surface, generating visual manifestations of cause and effect. At its most basic, ‘Planet’ is a semi-spherical body of water in which we can visually understand interplays between light, curvature and refraction.
In another reading, ‘Planet’ muses upon scale and complexity. The sphere is the fundamental form that emerges when equal pressure is applied – as with small water droplets falling through space, or, at a vastly different scale – both spatial and temporal – with the effect of gravity on planets. The sphere is the planet on which we stand, the moon that we see, the sun that gives us light and warmth. Equally, water – transparent, almost tasteless, and barely considered as we drink or bathe – is the fundamental life-blood of our world.
Another possibility is that ‘Planet’, with its stainless steel, clean white engineering plastics, and hoses, is an experimental life-support machine, an incubating system in which some new biological thing is coming into being.
In these ways, ‘Planet’ speaks to multiple possible readings, of differing physical scales, layered timescales, and to inter- and intra-dependent levels of systematic complexity.
