100 Closest Stars
100 Closest Stars
Astronomical data from NASA. Pigmented filament. Magnetic hardware. Designed in New York. Made in Canada. Ed. 3
“100 Closest Stars” consists of 100 3D-printed crystalline forms ranging in size from a baseball to a football, arrayed together along one long wall in a grid five sculptures high and 20 across. Appearing in a variety of colors—from vibrant scarlet, vivid blue, and bright green to Day-Glo yellow—each “star” is rendered using the astronomical data that locates it in the night sky, a process that involves a form of spatial analysis called Voronoi geometry, which produces the unfamiliar, faceted shapes. Each form is unique, its angles and facets reflecting the shifting position that it holds vis-à-vis our planet as we plummet through the depths of space in our expanding universe. Solid yet vertiginous, “100 Closest Stars” evokes both the immensity of space and the intimacy of an object that can easily be held in one’s hand, or—through mathematics—in one’s mind.” - Ray Cronin
Provenance: What If, November 19, 2021 - January 20, 2022, The Blue Building Gallery, Halifax NS Canada. Site-specific installation, The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo Canada, organized with K. Blake, June 2018 - December 2020. Bushwick Open Studios, September 15 - 17, 2016, Carto, Moore St. Bushwick. Permanent Collections: The Royal Bank of Canada (1/ed. 3); The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (ap/ed. 3).