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installation
view, 1998
99 2.5"
x 3" digital prints, 99 motors, 3 variacs, mixed media
6' 8" h. x 7' 5" w. x 4' d.
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An installation comprised of 99 small scale digital prints spinning on their vertical axis by means of dc motors. They are mounted to a 10' x 10' wall in a room of almost the same size that has been painted black. The images spin at varying rates, sometimes slowly enough that the image is clear and sometimes so quickly that you can barely distinguish the image, invoking our brain’s interpolation software, the persistence of vision.
installation
view of one element spinning
image is of the Wright brothers glider experiments, ca. 1902
Wright brothers, glider experiments, ca. 1902
Wright brothers glider, ca. 1902
installation detail from above with motors on
microscopic image of my eyelash
microscopic image of my spit
shadow photograph of a lightbulb
shadow photograph of a plug
ice on Europa from Galileo Mission, NASA
ice on Europa, Galileo Mission, NASA
GOES satellite image of the east coast and Atlantic Ocean
GOES satellite image of the surface of the Earth
Dolly's genes, ca. 1998
installation detail with motors off
According to René Descartes, space is filled with a material consisting of tiny particles that set each other in centrifugal motion and thus form the heavenly bodies. This material he called plenum.We must assume that the entire matter of the heavens...rotates constantly like a whirl, with the sun at its centre... Just as one can observe the formation of whirlpools in rivers, that individual grasses floating in it run with the water, while others rotate around their own centre and rotate faster the closer they come to the centre, it is easy to imagine the same of the planets.
Principia Philosophiae, Amsterdam, 1656
You have said
what you are.
I am what I am.
Your actions inside my head,
my head here in my hands
with something circling inside.
I have no name
for what circles
so perfectly.
Jelaluddin Rumi
Spin, in nuclear physics, is a quantity that expresses the angular momentum of a body such as an atomic nucleus or an elementary particle in rapid rotation around its axis. Within the atom, electrons rotate about the nucleus at speeds of 1 to 10 percent of the speed of light. The electron, as well as many other particles, also spins on its own axis like a top.
Encarta, 1993