2013
Site-specific installation in a 40-foot shipping container
Projector, sensor, iridescent sheer fabric, fan, reflective Mylar, LED rope, speaker
Kobe Biennale 2013, Art in Container, Kobe, Japan
Nebula began from an observation of the sun as both the source of all visibility and the light that blinds us when we look at it directly. The work turns a shipping container into a dark interior where light behaves the same way, revealing and obscuring at once.
Reflective Mylar and LED rope line the interior, turning the container’s walls into surfaces that catch and return light. Projected light passes through a curtain of iridescent sheer fabric, which an oscillating fan keeps swaying, and beams drift, scatter, and break apart across its moving surface. A proximity sensor follows the curtain; each time the fabric swings near, it triggers the sound of wind from a speaker. Artificial wind moves the curtain, and the curtain calls up the sound of wind in return. Because the space is never fully visible, visitors have to move through the container and look for themselves, finding what the light shows only in fragments.
