solids, 2018
ice, stone, steel wire, soil, speaker, piezoelectric sensor, computer
250x120x80cm
A cube of ice slowly melts away from a stone. As the drops fall, they sound as though the earth were swallowing them into a vast emptiness. Over time, the ice detaches completely, leaving the rock suspended in space. A quiet sense of vertigo takes hold..
solids considers global warming as a hyperobject, demanding what Timothy Morton calls a geological awareness of planetary processes unfolding across geological timescales, mostly imperceptible as discrete events. This transformation is brought into human scale, revealing only a fraction of a process that continues independently of our presence.
