Skies
Every so often I’d stop and look up and see a sky that seem confined, compressed. I spent long moments looking. The sky was stretched taut between cliff edges, it was narrowed and lowered, that was the strange thing, the sky right there, scale the rocks and you can touch it. I started walking again and came to the end of the tight passage and into an open space choked at ground level with brush and stony debris and I half crawled to the top of a high rubble mound and there was the whole scorched world.
Don DeLilo
Point Omega, 2010
Skies is a pavilion in shape of an icosidodecahedron and installed under an open sky. It is covered with three types of glass surfaces. One third of the pavilion’s surfaces is made out of the transparent glass and provides direct view of the sky in real time. Second third of the surfaces are covered with the translucent images of the sky taken every day of the year 2008. The rest of the surfaces are combination of the translucent images of the sky placed between electrochromic glass that electronically changes opacity which provides a view that dynamically changes from the opaque image of the sky to the translucent image through which the actual sky is also visible. The goal is to create slightly displaced view of the aerial heights through four different presentations of the sky.
156. “Why is the sky blue?” – A fair enough question, and one I have learned the answer to several times. Yet, every time I try to explain it to someone or remember it to myself, it eludes me. Now I like to remember the question alone, as it reminds me that my mind is essentially a sieve, that I am mortal.
Betsy Nelson
Bluets, 2009
Below is the composition of images of the sky taken every day in the year 2008.
This project was awarded 4Culture The Individual Artist Program Grant and will be executed in Seattle, WA, USA in 2011.
