Light - Water - Vortices
Unrestrained by weight or tangibility, light can instantaneously flood a space bathing all objects within. Cast your gaze on a surface bathed in light and you may gather an impression not limited to the surface but a sense of weight, structure, malleability, perhaps temperature may reveal itself.
"The eye that gathers impressions is no longer the eye that sees a depiction on a surface; it becomes a hand, the ray of light becomes a finger and the imagination becomes a form of immediate touching." (Herder, 1778)
Circini
Addition
2016
H. 200 x W. 120 x D. 51 cm
Blown glass and aluminium
Perhaps the imagination is beckoned to seek beyond what is visible on the surface by the very limitation of light and surface interaction. What happens when the imagination is momentarily stripped of this limitation? Water permits the viewer to see right past its surface and into its body circumventing the need to imagine what may lie beyond.
Inversely, the cabinet offered a physical doorway into the curated mind of the collector.