OBSERVATORY (public sculpture)

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Movement can exist as both the literal definition for an object as it travels through space and time, but can also extend its meaning to a shift in perspective. As we grasp a better understanding of the world around us, our way of seeing things too evolves.
 

We have gone from thinking of the skies as being celestial gods to understanding this as the vastness of a fire-lit universe. You would have thought that this would help ground our notions on reality, even securing a clear path towards man’s prosperity. However, regardless of all this gained knowledge, advances in AI and healthcare, we have recently witnessed and seized to forces greater than our own. Forces that have radically changed the way we live and may live for many years to come.

Our very essence as human beings is tied down to the fabricator of consciousness, we are bound to the universe and the planet it has built, this, the very environment we live in. So where do we stand in all this, a pandemic, a situation where nature has shown us that even our most brilliant minds and algorithms can’t predict or protect us. We can choose to see this as an act of war, but also accept to see it as witnesses to both our moral and mortal fragility.