3-TIMESCAPES:
from clocks to Outerspace
a
project by Catrinel S.tudio
as
part of Our Nature : Art & Science Residence, Trieste 2018
The
installation is composed of three types of pendulums: human,
geological and astral. Their movement pattern the temporal landscape
of the space it refers to. The first, a clock pendulum, represents
human time. Its movements are regular, fast and mechanical.
The
middle pendulum, made out of rock refers to geological time. The
pendulum’s movements are chaotic and unpredictable, in alignment
with how geological events seem to occur, especially earthquakes.
This pendulum was inspired by the seismic pendulum in Grotta Gigante,
Trieste.
The
third pendulum, made out of a concave mirror, representing cosmic
time, is almost still, thus referring to our perception of the outer
space as a calm and vast landscape.
HUMAN
PENDULUM
The
one in the image, a clock pendulum, represents human time. Its
movements are regular, fast and mechanical. The object is made out of
a golden mirror, thus the viewer can watch himself watching time pass
by.
GEOLOGICAL
PENDULUM
Geological
Pendulum, part of Timescapes: from Clock to Outerspace, Art&Science
residence
Three
types of pendulums: human, Earth and astral compose this piece. Their
movement pattern describes the temporal landscape of the space it
refers to.
The
Earth pendulum in this image, made out of a rock, refers to geological
time. Its movements are chaotic and unpredictable, in alignment with
how geological events seem to occur, especially earthquakes. This
pendulum was inspired by the seismic pendulum in Grotta Gigante,
Trieste. The mechanism used is a depiction of The Chaos Theory, a
branch of mathematics focusing on the behavior of dynamical systems
that are highly sensitive to initial conditions.
COSMIC
PENDULUM
The
cosmic pendulum, made out of a concave mirror, representing cosmic
time, is almost still, thus referring to our perception of the outer
space as a calm and vast landscape. As the viewer moves around, the
reflections in the mirror appear distorted.
The
pendulum mirrors used in the LIGO Observatory to detect gravitational
waves have been the inspiration for this piece. These objects, also
called silent mirrors, are static pendulums designed to reflect a laser beam used to detect gravitational waves (fluctuations in the
space-time curve that propagates like a wave). In 2016, LIGO and
Virgo Collaboration Scientific made the first direct observation of
the gravitational waves generated by the merging of two black holes
at ca. 1 billion light-years from Earth, an extremely important
moment in science, which was rewarded with the Nobel Prize in 2017.
