[LESS]'Time is the mobile image of immobile eternity.'
I took this quotation from St. Augustine as a starting point to render the idea of a paradox into an aesthetic object. The mobile image...that's time as an event, as history, narration, as physical experience and ultimately of course as death. Consider the thought that this surface movement creates the vortex of its own annihilation! This may not even be so paradoxical for a man who lived in a time and a place where the night sky would have been a spectacle unknown to us now.
Perhaps that is why medieval man was more global than we are after all. As history moves on and man gradually becomes imprisoned by his individual perspective, I wanted to make a work that avoids a single viewpoint. So you'll have to orbit around it and yet you'll never know if you've seen the whole thing. There should not be an ideal viewpoint - if there was one it would ultimately contain the seed of its own annihilation. For such a point would be a contested place of power. The ideal viewpoint, that's you, moving around an agreed centre. Boris Gerrets.
With thanks to:
Sudmeier BV Haarlem - Machining, R Klomp and B. Spinhoven - Electronic guidance and speed control.
Supported by Visiting Arts
UK Premiere.
