Michaela Gleave
Eclipse Machine (Retrograde Motion)
2015
Projection lamp, motors, optical glass, timber, stand
90 x 90 x 140 cm
Light projected through two rotating prisms is cast in orbiting motions around the peripheries of the room. Internal reflections within the prisms cause motion at certain points to double-back on itself, sending the light into retrograde. Mimicking the movements of the cosmos the forms generated reference gravitational lensing, Doppler shifts, and quantum uncertainly in a constantly shifting series of spatiotemporal relationships.