Detail of Celestial Mechanics 25-02
The ideas for these pieces centre around astronomy and the optical presence of the night sky. As the name suggests, this series of art works assembles sections of Interstellar Space as a mechanical construct. Informing and inspiring these works are alternative, lost and forgotten scientific theories. The topographies are often outlined with negative curvatures as if the works were carved by counter-rotating electo-magnetic vortices. This morphology is reminiscent of the high energy plasma structures in Space.
In the later works these issues resolved themselves into different active layers, one containing ionic elements - painted discs resembling the views through telescopes of distant nebulae or reinterpreted as quantum particles. Other layers express the flow of charge photons that underlie the physical existence of the material world. These elements exemplify the repulsion of the electro-magnetic field and the equivalence of gravity as a real expansion. These wholes are immersed in array of photonic allusion. In this respect they reflect on the Light Ballistic theories of Walther Ritz (d1909)and others.
They are fabricated as multi-faceted acrylic (Plexiglas) 'sandwiches' of clear, translucent and coloured layers with embedded elements made out of painted and graphic layers. These are bolted together using nickel 'hex' bolts flush with the surface. They also form part of the hanging structure that spaces the pieces about 4cms from the enclosure. This hanging layer integrates visually with the piece.
| Celestial Mechanics : 25cms. Theis series consists of unique hand made prototypes. All these works are for sale. |
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 CM25-01 |
 CM25-02 |
 CM25-03 |
 CM25-04 |
 CM25-05 |
 CM25-06 |
 CM25-07 |
 CM25-08 |
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Celestial Mechanics : 50x50cms and 50x100cms |
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 CA50-3634 |
 CA50-2603 |
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Celestial Mechanics : approx 100cms |
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 CM100-2206 |
 CM100-1734 |
 CM100-1768 |
 CM100-1880 |
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 CM100-0138 |
 CM100-0316 |
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