2010, dimensions variable, fabric, motors, translucent paper, and other materials.
“Plato claimed that reasoning about geometric objects trains the mind for the more difficult task of ascending to knowledge of what he called ‘The Good’… [He believed that] the errors of the senses must be corrected by concentrated thought, which is best learned by studying mathematics. Plato maintained that these ideal [geometric] figures not only exist in our imaginations but also exist in a world of perfect ideas, of universal eternal truths.” —from Euclid’s Geometry
This work is a visual-mechanical contemplation on the tension that exists between our concepts of the world and the world itself—between what we think we know, and what is—between the known and the unknown. Light is cast through the geometric diagrams, projecting onto the cloud in the same way that we project our concepts of the world onto our experience of it. Not only is the cloud three-dimensional, but it also remains in a constant state of flux; the cloud is a metaphor for the dynamic and puzzling chaos that Plato may have struggled with.
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