06/02/2024
Like holding the fragility of the sky in our hands after 2 years of research... a very emotional moment for me and my co-adventurers! ✨
This “Sky bubble” is the entanglement of our scientific and artistic knowledge. It consists only of black and white matter in a transparent sapphire (no blue pigment, just Rayleigh effect!).
This is an artistic recreation of what happens in the atmosphere: when the white light coming from the sun enters our atmosphere, penetrates through our atmosphere, the blue fraction of it scatters across several atmospheric layers, thus giving its radiant blue color to the sky.
This hand-crafted poetical object intends to bring us face to face, in an intimate way, with the immateriality of the atmosphere. In this space, we have striven to bridge together microcosm (brush-made micro-structure composed of nanoparticles) and macrocosm (light travelling through the cosmos).
It seemed essential to us that it should be minimalistic, almost radical if we look at it from a pictorial point of view as it is a painting that litterally fits in a hand. When monumental works are rightfully popular, I have enjoyed attempting to suggest a vision of the infinite in a tiny structure.
Created with a patented process, in collaboration with , , Lumière Matière, Lyon I, Pillonnet